On the canonical reduction of spherically symmetric gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/6/020zbMATH Open0857.53062arXivgr-qc/9508028OpenAlexW2082117829MaRDI QIDQ4886913FDOQ4886913

Authors: Stephen R. Lau 

Publication date: 2 March 1997

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

Abstract: In a thorough paper Kuchar has examined the canonical reduction of the most general action functional describing the geometrodynamics of the maximally extended Schwarzschild geometry. This reduction yields the true degrees of freedom for (vacuum) spherically symmetric general relativity. The essential technical ingredient in Kuchar's analysis is a canonical transformation to a certain chart on the gravitational phase space which features the Schwarzschild mass parameter $M_S$, expressed in terms of what are essentially Arnowitt-Deser-Misner variables, as a canonical coordinate. In this paper we discuss the geometric interpretation of Kuchar's canonical transformation in terms of the theory of quasilocal energy-momentum in general relativity given by Brown and York. We find Kuchar's transformation to be a ``sphere-dependent boost to the rest frame," where the ``rest frame is defined by vanishing quasilocal momentum. Furthermore, our formalism is general enough to cover the case of (vacuum) two-dimensional dilaton gravity. Therefore, besides reviewing Kuchav{r}'s original work for Schwarzschild black holes from the framework of hyperbolic geometry, we present new results concerning the canonical reduction of Witten-black-hole geometrodynamics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9508028

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zbMATH Keywords

action functionalcanonical reductionquasilocal energy-momentumWitten black-hole geometrodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

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