Asymptotics and Hamiltonians in a First order formalism

Details Asymptotics and Hamiltonians in a First order formalism Asymptotics and Hamiltonians in a First order formalism

2008-02-18

arxiv.org/abs/0802.2527v2

Class.Quant.Grav.25:095020,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

18 pages, No figures. Added a footnote 2 and two references

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/25/9/095020

We consider 4-dimensional space-times which are asymptotically flat at spatial infinity and show that, in the first order framework, action principle for general relativity is well-defined \emph{without the need of infinite counter terms.} It naturally leads to a covariant phase space in which the Hamiltonians generating asymptotic symmetries provide the total energy-momentum and angular momentum of the space-time. We address the subtle but important problems that arise because of logarithmic translations and super-translations both in the Langrangian and Hamiltonian frameworks. As a forthcoming paper will show, the treatment of higher dimensions is considerably simpler. Our first order framework also suggests a new direction for generalizing the spectral action of non-commutative geometry.

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