Interacting vector fields in relativity without relativity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/12/309MaRDI QIDQ4549984zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Edward Anderson, Julian Barbour

Publication date 28 August 2002

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0201092

zbMATH Keywords

3-space approachgeometrodynamicsinteracting vector fieldsrelativityuniversal light-cone

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: Barbour, Foster and '{O} Murchadha have recently developed a new framework, called here {it{the 3-space approach}}, for the formulation of classical bosonic dynamics. Neither time nor a locally Minkowskian structure of spacetime are presupposed. Both arise as emergent features of the world from geodesic-type dynamics on a space of 3-dimensional metric--matter configurations. In fact gravity, the universal light cone and Abelian gauge theory minimally coupled to gravity all arise naturally through a single common mechanism. It yields relativity -- and more -- without presupposing relativity. This paper completes the recovery of the presently known bosonic sector within the 3-space approach. We show, for a rather general ansatz, that 3-vector fields can interact among themselves only as Yang--Mills fields minimally coupled to gravity.

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