Representations of spacetime diffeomorphisms. II. Canonical Geometrodynamics: C. J. Isham and K. V. Kuchař, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 71 KB
- Volume
- 163
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-4916
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✦ Synopsis
Poisson brackets between two super-Hamiltonians on canonical coordinates (spatial metrics in geometrodynamics and embedding variables in parametrized theories) is usually regarded as an indication that the Dirac relations cannot be connected with a representation of the complete Lie algebra L Diffd of spacetime diffeomorphisms. It is shown how this difficulty may be overcome and a homomorphic mapping of spacetime vector fields YE L Diff 4 into the Poisson bracket algebra on the phase space of the system constructed. How the technique works in the case of a parametrized field theory is explained in the present paper, and it is generalized to canonical geometrodynamics in the companion paper (Part II). In a parametrized theory, the phase space of the system is the ordinary phase space of the field augmented by the embedding variables X: I --t 4 and their conjugate momenta. The dynamical variable H( I') which represents YE L Diff & generates a deformation of the embedding along the flow lines of Y accompanied by the correct dynamical evolution of the held data and preserves the constraints in the extended phase space of the system. The relation between the representations of Diff z and Diff A is also established.
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