On the role of conformal three-geometries in the dynamics of general relativity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/9/304zbMATH Open1005.83010arXivgr-qc/0110106OpenAlexW3103379437MaRDI QIDQ4548089FDOQ4548089

Authors: László B. Szabados 

Publication date: 3 March 2003

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

Abstract: It is shown that the Chern-Simons functional, built in the spinor representation from the initial data on spacelike hypersurfaces, is invariant with respect to infinitesimal conformal rescalings if and only if the vacuum Einstein equations are satisfied. As a consequence, we show that in the phase space the Hamiltonian constraint of vacuum general relativity is the Poisson bracket of the imaginary part of this Chern-Simons functional and Misner's time (essentially the 3-volume). Hence the vacuum Hamiltonian constraint is the condition on the canonical variables that the imaginary part of the Chern- Simons functional be constant along the volume flow. The vacuum momentum constraint can also be reformulated in a similar way as a (more complicated) condition on the change of the imaginary part of the Chern-Simons functional along the flow of York's time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0110106

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal geometryChern-Simons functionalHamiltonian constraintspinor representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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• Three-geometry and reformulation of the Wheeler–DeWitt equation
• The Chern-Simons invariant as the natural time variable for classical and quantum cosmology.
• Affine group formulation of the standard model coupled to gravity

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