Null dust in canonical gravity

Details Null dust in canonical gravity Null dust in canonical gravity

1997-04-18

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9704053v1

Phys.Rev. D56 (1997) 4878-4895

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

25 pages, REVTEX, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.56.4878

We present the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian framework which incorporates null dust as a source into canonical gravity. Null dust is a generalized Lagrangian system which is described by six Clebsch potentials of its four-velocity Pfaff form. The Dirac--ADM decomposition splits these into three canonical coordinates (the comoving coordinates of the dust) and their conjugate momenta (appropriate projections of four-velocity). Unlike ordinary dust of massive particles, null dust therefore has three rather than four degrees of freedom per space point. These are evolved by a Hamiltonian which is a linear combination of energy and momentum densities of the dust. The energy density is the norm of the momentum density with respect to the spatial metric. The coupling to geometry is achieved by adding these densities to the gravitational super-Hamiltonian and supermomentum. This leads to appropriate Hamiltonian and momentum constraints in the phase space of the system. The constraints can be rewritten in two alternative forms in which they generate a true Lie algebra. The Dirac constraint quantization of the system is formally accomplished by imposing the new constraints as quantum operator restrictions on state functionals. We compare the canonical schemes for null and ordinary dust and emhasize their differences.

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