The solution to the problem of time in shape dynamics

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/15/155001zbMATH Open1296.83008arXiv1302.6264OpenAlexW3100191722WikidataQ56687328 ScholiaQ56687328MaRDI QIDQ2877421FDOQ2877421

Authors: Julian Barbour, Flavio Mercati, Tim A. Koslowski 

Publication date: 22 August 2014

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

Abstract: The absence of unique time evolution in Einstein's spacetime description of gravity leads to the hitherto unresolved `problem of time' in quantum gravity. Shape Dynamics is an objectively equivalent representation of gravity that trades spacetime refoliation invariance for three-dimensional conformal invariance. Its logical completion presented here gives a dimensionless description of gravitational dynamics. We show that in this framework the classical problem of time is completely solved. Since a comparable definitive solution is impossible within the spacetime description, we believe Shape Dynamics provides a key ingredient for the creation of quantum gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6264

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityshape dynamicsproblem of time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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