Killing symmetries as Hamiltonian constraints

DOI10.1142/S0219887816500444zbMATH Open1339.83022arXiv1511.05829MaRDI QIDQ2805564FDOQ2805564

Authors: Luca Lusanna 

Publication date: 12 May 2016

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The existence of a Killing symmetry in a gauge theory is equivalent to the addition of extra Hamiltonian constraints in its phase space formulation, which imply restrictions both on the Dirac observables (the gauge invariant physical degrees of freedom) and on the gauge freedom. When there is a time-like Killing vector field only pure gauge electromagnetic fields survive in Maxwell theory in Minkowski space-time , while in ADM canonical gravity in asymptotically Minkowskian space-times only inertial effects without gravitational waves survive.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05829

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge theoryMinkowski space-timecanonical gravitygravitational wavesKilling symmetrieselectromagnetic fieldsgauge freedomHamiltonian constraintsMaxwell theoryADM canonical gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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