The symplectic 2-form for gravity in terms of free null initial data

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/15/155022zbMATH Open1273.83024arXiv1211.3880OpenAlexW1990986208MaRDI QIDQ2851385FDOQ2851385

Authors: Michael P. Reisenberger 

Publication date: 10 October 2013

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A hypersurface formed of two null sheets, or "light fronts", swept out by the future null normal geodesics emerging from a common spacelike 2-disk can serve as a Cauchy surface for a region of spacetime. Already in the 1960s free (unconstrained) initial data for general relativity were found for such hypersurfaces. Here an expression is obtained for the symplectic 2-form of vacuum general relativity in terms of such free data. This can be done, even though variations of the geometry do not in general preserve the nullness of the initial hypersurface, because of the diffeomorphism gauge invariance of general relativity. The present expression for the symplectic 2-form has been used previously to calculate the Poisson brackets of the free data.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3880

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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