The gravitational Hamiltonian, action, entropy and surface terms

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/6/017zbMATH Open0860.58052arXivgr-qc/9501014OpenAlexW2042039466MaRDI QIDQ4886910FDOQ4886910

Authors: Gary T. Horowitz, S. W. Hawking 

Publication date: 21 April 1997

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

Abstract: We give a general derivation of the gravitational hamiltonian starting from the Einstein-Hilbert action, keeping track of all surface terms. The surface term that arises in the hamiltonian can be taken as the definition of the `total energy', even for spacetimes that are not asymptotically flat. (In the asymptotically flat case, it agrees with the usual ADM energy.) We also discuss the relation between the euclidean action and the hamiltonian when there are horizons of infinite area (e.g. acceleration horizons) as well as the usual finite area black hole horizons. Acceleration horizons seem to be more analogous to extreme than nonextreme black holes, since we find evidence that their horizon area is not related to the total entropy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9501014

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zbMATH Keywords

entropyEinstein-Hilbert actionsurface termsgravitational Hamiltonian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Black holes (83C57) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

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