Gravity and BF theory defined in bounded regions

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00371-4MaRDI QIDQ1362730zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Viqar Husain, Seth Major

Publication date 6 August 1997

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9703043

zbMATH Keywords

variational principlefinite spatial regionfixed boundary metricnonvanishing Hamiltoniansurface observable algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) General relativity (83C99)

Abstract: We study Einstein gravity in a finite spatial region. By requiring a well-defined variational principle, we identify all local boundary conditions, derive surface observables, and compute their algebra. The observables arise as induced surface terms, which contribute to a non-vanishing Hamiltonian. Unlike the asymptotically flat case, we find that there are an infinite number of surface observables. We give a similar analysis for SU(2) BF theory.

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