Extending the rigidity of general relativity

DOI10.1063/1.4967951zbMATH Open1354.83010arXiv1608.08236OpenAlexW3099089937MaRDI QIDQ2836124FDOQ2836124

Authors: Henrique Gomes, Vasudev Shyam 

Publication date: 7 December 2016

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

Abstract: We give the most general conditions to date which lead to uniqueness of the general relativistic Hamiltonian. Namely, we show that all spatially covariant generalizations of the scalar constraint which extend the standard one while remaining quadratic in the momenta are second class. Unlike previous investigations along these lines, we do not require a specific Poisson bracket algebra, and the quadratic dependence on the momenta is completely general, with an arbitrary local operator as the kinetic term.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08236

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zbMATH Keywords

kinetic termPoisson bracket algebrageneral relativistic Hamiltonian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups (17B45) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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