Note on the phase space of asymptotically flat gravity in Ashtekar-Barbero variables

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/14/145011MaRDI QIDQ3448695zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Miguel Campiglia

Publication date 26 October 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5531

zbMATH Keywords

Ashtekar-Barbero variablesasymptoticaly flat gravitycanonical phase space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We describe the canonical phase space of asymptotically flat gravity in Ashtekar-Barbero variables. We show that the Gauss constraint multiplier must fall off slower than previously considered in order to recover ADM phase space. The generators of the asymptotic Poincare group are derived within the Ashtekar-Barbero phase space without reference to the ADM generators. The resulting expressions are shown to agree, modulo Gauss constraint terms, with those obtained from the ADM generators. A payoff of this procedure is a new expression for the generator of asymptotic rotations which is polynomial in the triad and hence better suited for quantum theory. Our treatment complements earlier description by Thiemann in the context of self-dual variables.

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