Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1996-07-26
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
lecture presented at Pac. Conf. Grav. Cosm. (Feb. 1996, Seoul), 5 pages, latex (+3 figures available as hardcopy)
Scientific paper
For a canonical formulation of quantum gravity, the superspace of all possible 3-geometries on a Cauchy hypersurface of a 3+1-dimensional Lorentzian manifold plays a key role. While in the analogous 2+1-dimensional case the superspace of all Riemannian 2-geometries is well known, the structure of the superspace of all Riemannian 3-geometries has not yet been resolved at present. In this paper, an important subspace of the latter is disentangled: The superspace of local homogenous Riemannian 3-geometries. It is finite dimensional and can be factored by conformal scale dilations, with the flat space as the center of projection. The corresponding moduli space can be represented by homothetically normalized 3-geometries. By construction, this moduli space of the local homogenous 3-geometries is an algebraic variety. An explicit parametrization is given by characteristic scalar invariants of the Riemannian 3-geometry. Although the moduli space is not locally Euclidean, it is a Hausdorff space. Nevertheless, its topology is compatible with the non-Hausdorffian topology of the space of all Bianchi-Lie algebras, which characterize the moduli modulo differences in their anisotropy.
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