Generalized embedding variables for geometrodynamics and space-time diffeomorphisms: Ultralocal coordinate conditions

DOI10.1063/1.530393zbMATH Open0770.53045arXivhep-th/9206105OpenAlexW2023100909MaRDI QIDQ4697279FDOQ4697279

Stephen P. Braham

Publication date: 29 June 1993

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the embedding variable approach to geometrodynamics advocated in work by Isham, Kuchav{r} and Unruh for a general class of coordinate conditions that mirror the Isham-Kuchav{r} Gaussian condition but allow for arbitrary algebraic complexity. We find that the same essential structure present in the ultralocal Gaussian condition is repeated in the general case. The resultant embedding--extended phase space contains a full representation of the Lie algebra of the spacetime diffeomorphism group as well as a consistent pure gravity sector.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9206105

zbMATH Keywords

geometrodynamicsIsham-Kuchař Gaussian conditionultralocal Gaussian condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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• World sheet diffeomorphisms and the canonical string
• Representations of spacetime diffeomorphisms. I: Canonical parametrized field theories. II: Canonical geometrodynamics
• Topology of parametrized systems
• Representation of spacetime diffeomorphisms in canonical geometrodynamics under harmonic coordinate conditions

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