Pair of null gravitating shells: II. Canonical theory and embedding variables

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/10/303zbMATH Open1004.83030arXivgr-qc/0112061OpenAlexW3100416420MaRDI QIDQ4549997FDOQ4549997

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Publication date: 13 February 2003

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

Abstract: The study of the two shell system started in our first paper ``Pair of null gravitating shells I (gr-qc/0112060) is continued. An action functional for a single shell due to Louko, Whiting and Friedman is generalized to give appropriate equations of motion for two and, in fact, any number of spherically symmetric null shells, including the cases when the shells intersect. In order to find the symplectic structure for the space of solutions described in paper I, the pull back to the constraint surface of the Liouville form determined by the action is transformed into new variables. They consist of Dirac observables, embeddings and embedding momenta (the so-called Kuchav{r} decomposition). The calculation includes the integration of a set of coupled partial differential equations. A general method of solving the equations is worked out.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0112061

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zbMATH Keywords

spacetimeEinstein equationDirac observables gravitational collapseLouko-Whiting-Friedman action principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55)

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