Isolated horizons: The classical phase space

DOI10.4310/ATMP.1999.V3.N3.A1MaRDI QIDQ5929504zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Abhay Ashtekar, Alejandro Corichi, Kirill Krasnov

Publication date 5 April 2001

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9905089

zbMATH Keywords

symmetriesLegendre transformphase spacequantum geometryaction principleMaxwell fieldsdilatonic couplingsself-dual connectionsconnection dynamicsboundary conditions for non-rotating isolated horizonselectromagnetic and dilatonic hairgauge on isolated horizonsnon-rotating black holesreal connections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Black holes (83C57) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: A Hamiltonian framework is introduced to encompass non-rotating (but possibly charged) black holes that are ``isolated near future time-like infinity or for a finite time interval. The underlying space-times need not admit a stationary Killing field even in a neighborhood of the horizon; rather, the physical assumption is that neither matter fields nor gravitational radiation fall across the portion of the horizon under consideration. A precise notion of non-rotating isolated horizons is formulated to capture these ideas. With these boundary conditions, the gravitational action fails to be differentiable unless a boundary term is added at the horizon. The required term turns out to be precisely the Chern-Simons action for the self-dual connection. The resulting symplectic structure also acquires, in addition to the usual volume piece, a surface term which is the Chern-Simons symplectic structure. We show that these modifications affect in subtle but important ways the standard discussion of constraints, gauge and dynamics. In companion papers, this framework serves as the point of departure for quantization, a statistical mechanical calculation of black hole entropy and a derivation of laws of black hole mechanics, generalized to isolated horizons. It may also have applications in classical general relativity, particularly in the investigation of of analytic issues that arise in the numerical studies of black hole collisions.

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