Strolling along gravitational vacua

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2020)184MaRDI QIDQ2185367zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emine Şeyma Kutluk, Ali Seraj, Dieter Van den Bleeken

Publication date 4 June 2020

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.12869

zbMATH Keywords

compact manifoldclassical theories of gravitydifferential and algebraic geometrygauge symmetryglobal symmetriesGeneral Relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

Abstract: We consider General Relativity (GR) on a space-time whose spatial slices are compact manifolds $M$ with non-empty boundary $partialM$. We argue that this theory has a non-trivial space of `vacua', consisting of spatial metrics obtained by an action on a reference flat metric by diffeomorpisms that are non-trivial at the boundary. In an adiabatic limit the Einstein equations reduce to geodesic motion on this space of vacua with respect to a particular pseudo-Riemannian metric that we identify. We show how the momentum constraint implies that this metric is fully determined by data on the boundary $partialM$ only, while the Hamiltonian constraint forces the geodesics to be null. We comment on how the conserved momenta of the geodesic motion correspond to an infinite set of conserved boundary charges of GR in this setup.

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