Reference Fluids as Standards of Space and Time

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1994-04-06

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9404007v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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The idea that spacetime points are to be identified by a fleet of clock--carrying particles can be traced to the earliest days of general relativity. Such a fleet of clocks can be described phenomenologically as a reference fluid. One approach to the problem of time consists in coupling the metric to a reference fluid and solving the super--Hamiltonian constraint for the momentum conjugate to the clock time variable. The resolved constraint leads to a functional Schr\"{o}dinger equation and formally to a conserved inner product. The reference fluid that is described phenomenologically as incoherent dust has the extraordinary property that the true Hamiltonian density for the coupled system depends only on the gravitational variables. The dust particles also endow space with a privileged system of coordinates that allows the supermomentum constraint to be solved explicitly. (Contribution to the Proceedings of the Lanczos Centenary Conference.)

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