The Poincaré group as the symmetry group of canonical general relativity

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

Robert Beig, Niall Ó Murchadha

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

22E70: Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations

83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences

70H40: Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics

83C30: Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory

70G10: Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics

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