Hamiltonian field theory in the radiating regime (Q3149245)

This monograph gives a comprehensive overview about Hamiltonian field theory with main application to the Einstein field equation. It is organized as follows: Chapter 1 introduces to the subject, especially to the relation between energy and Hamiltonian in field theory. Chapter 2 starts by recalling some elementary facts concerning Hamiltonian dynamical systems, and gives some toy examples illustrating some of the ideas developed in the remainder of this work. Chapter 3 describes a geometric Hamiltonian framework, adequate both to the usual asymptotically-flat-at-spatial-infinity regime and to the radiation regime. As far as the radiation zone is concerned, it turns out that the case of the massive scalar field on Minkowski space-time already exhibits several essential features of the problems that arise there while avoiding various technicalities which occur when one wishes to describe the Einstein gravity. Therefore, Chapter 4 continues with a detailed description of the application of that formalism to the case of the massless scalar field. The formalism of Chapter 3 is applied to the case of Einstein gravity in Chapters 5 and 6. Carefully prepared appendices and bibliography close this very readable book.