Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2001-01-12
Gen.Rel.Grav. 33 (2001) 1579-1696
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
106 pages, revtex file
Scientific paper
In a special class of globally hyperbolic, topologically trivial, asymptotically flat at spatial infinity spacetimes selected by the requirement of absence of supertranslations (compatible with Christodoulou-Klainermann spacetimes) it is possible to define the {\it rest-frame instant form} of ADM canonical gravity by using Dirac's strategy of adding ten extra variables at spatial infinity and ten extra first class constraints implying the gauge nature of these variables. The final canonical Hamiltonian is the weak ADM energy and a discussion of the Hamiltonian gauge transformations generated by the eight first class ADM constraints is given. When there is matter and the Newton constant is switched off, one recovers the description of the matter on the Wigner hyperplanes of the rest-frame instant form of dynamics in Minkowski spacetime.
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