LTB spacetimes in terms of Dirac observables

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/10/105013zbMATH Open1190.83118arXiv0906.0569OpenAlexW3099238029MaRDI QIDQ3570100FDOQ3570100

Authors: Kristina Giesel, Johannes Tambornino, Thomas Thiemann 

Publication date: 24 June 2010

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

Abstract: The construction of Dirac observables, that is gauge invariant objects, in General Relativity is technically more complicated than in other gauge theories such as the standard model due to its more complicated gauge group which is closely related to the group of spacetime diffeomorphisms. However, the explicit and usually cumbersome expression of Dirac observables in terms of gauge non invariant quantities is irrelevant if their Poisson algebra is sufficiently simple. Precisely that can be achieved by employing the relational formalism and a specific type of matter proposed originally by Brown and Kucha{v r}, namely pressureless dust fields. Moreover one is able to derive a compact expression for a physical Hamiltonian that drives their physical time evolution. The resulting gauge invariant Hamiltonian system is obtained by Higgs -- ing the dust scalar fields and has an infinite number of conserved charges which force the Goldstone bosons to decouple from the evolution. In previous publications we have shown that explicitly for cosmological perturbations. In this article we analyse the spherically symmetric sector of the theory and it turns out that the solutions are in one--to--one correspondence with the class of Lemaitre--Tolman--Bondi metrics. Therefore the theory is capable of properly describing the whole class of gravitational experiments that rely on the assumption of spherical symmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0569

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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