Boundary and corner terms in the action for general relativity

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA6014zbMATH Open1368.83014OpenAlexW3104276152MaRDI QIDQ5348161FDOQ5348161

Authors I. Jubb, Joseph Samuel, Rafael D. Sorkin, Sumati Surya 

Publication date 14 August 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00149

zbMATH Keywords

action principleboundary termsnull boundariesaction principle for general relativitycorner terms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

Abstract: We revisit the action principle for general relativity motivated by the path integral approach to quantum gravity. We consider a spacetime region whose boundary has piecewise $C^2$ components, each of which can be spacelike, timelike or null and consider metric variations in which only the pullback of the metric to the boundary is held fixed. Allowing all such metric variations we present a unified treatment of the spacelike, timelike and null boundary components using Cartan's tetrad formalism. Apart from its computational simplicity, this formalism gives us a simple way of identifying corner terms. We also discuss "creases" which occur when the boundary is the event horizon of a black hole. Our treatment is geometric and intrinsic and we present our results both in the computationally simpler tetrad formalism as well as the more familiar metric formalism. We recover known results from a simpler and more general point of view and find some new ones.

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