Hamiltonian Time Evolution for General Relativity

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.81.1154MaRDI QIDQ4492516zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arlen Anderson, James W. jun. York

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9807041

zbMATH Keywords

general relativityArnowitt-Deser-Misner-Teitelboim-Ashtekar actionHamiltonian time evolutiontwice-contracted Bianchi identity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

Abstract: Hamiltonian time evolution in terms of an explicit parameter time is derived for general relativity, even when the constraints are not satisfied, from the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner-Teitelboim-Ashtekar action in which the slicing density $alpha(x,t)$ is freely specified while the lapse $N=alpha{g}^{1/2}$ is not. The constraint ``algebra becomes a well-posed evolution system for the constraints; this system is the twice-contracted Bianchi identity when $R_{ij}=0$. The Hamiltonian constraint is an initial value constraint which determines $g^{1/2}$ and hence $N$, given $alpha$.

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