Spherically symmetric gravity as a completely integrable system.

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90293-3MaRDI QIDQ1967503zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors H. A. Kastrup, Thomas Thiemann

Publication date 6 March 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9401032

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: It is shown - in Ashtekar's canonical framework of General Relativity - that spherically symmetric (Schwarzschild) gravity in 4 dimensional space-time constitutes a finite dimensional completely integrable system. Canonically conjugate observables for asymptotically flat space-times are masses as action variables and - surprisingly - time variables as angle variables, each of which is associated with an asymptotic "end" of the Cauchy surfaces. The emergence of the time observable is a consequence of the Hamiltonian formulation and its subtleties concerning the slicing of space and time and is not in contradiction to Birkhoff's theorem. The results are of interest as to the concept of time in General Relativity. They can be formulated within the ADM formalism, too. Quantization of the system and the associated Schr"odinger equation depend on the allowed spectrum of the masses.

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