Histories approach to general relativity: I. The spacetime character of the canonical description

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/21/2/020zbMATH Open1050.83007arXivgr-qc/0306034OpenAlexW2126324967MaRDI QIDQ4470710FDOQ4470710

Authors: Ntina Savvidou 

Publication date: 15 June 2004

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

Abstract: The problem of time in canonical quantum gravity is related to the fact that the canonical description is based on the prior choice of a spacelike foliation, hence making a reference to a spacetime metric. However, the metric is expected to be a dynamical, fluctuating quantity in quantum gravity. We show how this problem can be solved in the histories formulation of general relativity. We implement the 3+1 decomposition using metric-dependent foliations which remain spacelike with respect to all possible Lorentzian metrics. This allows us to find an explicit relation of covariant and canonical quantities which preserves the spacetime character of the canonical description. In this new construction, we also have a coexistence of the spacetime diffeomorphisms group, and the Dirac algebra of constraints.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0306034

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zbMATH Keywords

general relativitycanonical quantizationcanonical quantum gravityDirac algebra of constraintshistories general relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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