Histories approach to general relativity: II. invariance groups

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/21/2/021zbMATH Open1050.83008arXivgr-qc/0306036OpenAlexW2131170844MaRDI QIDQ4470711FDOQ4470711

Ntina Savvidou

Publication date: 15 June 2004

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

Abstract: We show in detail how the histories description of general relativity carries representations of both the spacetime diffeomorphisms group and the Dirac algebra of constraints. We show that the introduction of metric-dependent equivariant foliations leads to the crucial result that the canonical constraints are invariant under the action of spacetime diffeomorphisms. Furthermore, there exists a representation of the group of generalised spacetime mappings that are functionals of the four-metric: this is a spacetime analogue of the group originally defined by Bergmann and Komar in the context of the canonical formulation of general relativity. Finally, we discuss the possible directions for the quantization of gravity in histories theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0306036

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zbMATH Keywords

general relativitycanonical quantizationcanonical quantum gravityinvariance groupsDirac 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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