Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2002-07-10
Lect.Notes Phys.633:36-62,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
19 pages, no figures
Scientific paper
Hamiltonian mechanics of field theory can be formulated in a generally covariant and background independent manner over a finite dimensional extended configuration space. The physical symplectic structure of the theory can then be defined over a space G of three-dimensional surfaces without boundary, in the extended configuration space. These surfaces provide a preferred over-coordinatization of phase space. I consider the covariant form of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation on G, and a canonical function S on G which is a preferred solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. The application of this formalism to general relativity is equivalent to the ADM formalism, but fully covariant. In the quantum domain, it yields directly the Ashtekar-Wheeler-DeWitt equation. Finally, I apply this formalism to discuss the partial observables of a covariant field theory and the role of the spin networks --basic objects in quantum gravity-- in the classical theory.
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