Null cones from I+ and Legendre submanifolds

DOI10.1063/1.533077MaRDI QIDQ4701868zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mirta Iriondo, Alejandra T. Rojas, Carlos N. Kozameh

Publication date 21 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9805027

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical evolutionenergy surfacenull surface formulation of general relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

Abstract: It is shown that the main variable Z of the Null Surface Formulation of GR is the generating function of a constrained Lagrange submanifold that lives on the energy surface H=0 and that its level surfaces Z=const. are Legendre submanifolds on that energy surface. The behaviour of the variable Z at the caustic points is analysed and a genralization of this variable is discussed.

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