Observer’s observables. Residual diffeomorphisms

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA6F33zbMATH Open1367.83013arXiv1610.03294OpenAlexW3099629001WikidataQ58879735 ScholiaQ58879735MaRDI QIDQ5283544FDOQ5283544

Paweł Duch, Jerzy Lewandowski, Jȩdrzej Świeżewski

Publication date: 24 July 2017

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

Abstract: We investigate the fate of diffeomorphisms when the radial gauge is imposed in canonical general relativity. As shown elsewhere, the radial gauge is closely related to the observer's observables. These observables are invariant under a large subgroup of diffeomorphisms which results in their usefulness for canonical general relativity. There are, however, some diffeomorphisms, called residual diffeomorphisms, which might be "observed" by the observer as they do not preserve her observables. The present paper is devoted to the analysis of these diffeomorphisms in the case of the spatial and spacetime radial gauges. Although the residual diffeomorphisms do not form a subgroup of all diffeomorphisms, we show that their induced action in the phase space does form a group. We find the generators of the induced transformations and compute the structure functions of the algebras they form. The obtained algebras are deformations of the algebra of the Euclidean group and the algebra of the Poincar'e group in the spatial and spacetime case, respectively. In both cases the deformation depends only on the Riemann curvature tensor and in particular vanishes when the space or spacetime is flat.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03294

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zbMATH Keywords

canonical general relativityDirac observablesradial gaugespacetime radial gauge

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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