Coordinates, observables and symmetry in relativity

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2009.03.014MaRDI QIDQ833485zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sebastiano Sonego, Hans F. Westman

Publication date 14 August 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.2651

zbMATH Keywords

eventsgeneral covariancehole argumentobservablesrelativity principlesspacetimesymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: We investigate the interplay and connections between symmetry properties of equations, the interpretation of coordinates, the construction of observables, and the existence of physical relativity principles in spacetime theories. Using the refined notion of an event as a ``point-coincidence between scalar fields that completely characterise a spacetime model, we also propose a natural generalisation of the relational local observables that does not require the existence of four everywhere invertible scalar fields. The collection of all point-coincidences forms in generic situations a four-dimensional manifold, that is naturally identified with the physical spacetime.

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