Gauge fixing in (2+1)-gravity: Dirac bracket and spacetime geometry

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/12/125008zbMATH Open1219.83038arXiv1012.1835OpenAlexW3104126695MaRDI QIDQ3086953FDOQ3086953

Authors: Catherine Meusburger, T. Schönfeld 

Publication date: 1 August 2011

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

Abstract: We consider (2+1)-gravity with vanishing cosmological constant as a constrained dynamical system. By applying Dirac's gauge fixing procedure, we implement the constraints and determine the Dirac bracket on the gauge-invariant phase space. The chosen gauge fixing conditions have a natural physical interpretation and specify an observer in the spacetime. We derive explicit expressions for the resulting Dirac brackets and discuss their geometrical interpretation. In particular, we show that specifying an observer with respect to two point particles gives rise to conical spacetimes, whose deficit angle and time shift are determined, respectively, by the relative velocity and minimal distance of the two particles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.1835

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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