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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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