The Poincaré group as the symmetry group of canonical general relativity

DOI10.1016/0003-4916(87)90037-6zbMath0617.70021OpenAlexW1984537216MaRDI QIDQ1822538

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-4916(87)90037-6

zbMATH Keywords

symplectic geometry phase space asymptotically flat general relativity symmetry group Poincaré group index notation asymptotically flat general relativistic spacetimes boundary conditions at spatial infinity parity conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10)

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