Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2009-02-02
Mod.Phys.Lett.A24:725-732,2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
4 pages, to appear in Modern Physics Letters A
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217732309030473
It is well known that in a generally covariant gravitational theory the choice of spacetime scalars as coordinates yields phase-space observables (or "invariants"). However their relation to the symmetry group of diffeomorphism transformations has remained obscure. In a symmetry-inspired approach we construct invariants out of canonically induced active gauge transformations. These invariants may be intepreted as the full set of dynamical variables evaluated in the intrinsic coordinate system. The functional invariants can explicitly be written as a Taylor expansion in the coordinates of any observer, and the coefficients have a physical and geometrical interpretation. Surprisingly, all invariants can be obtained as limits of a family of canonical transformations. This permits a short (again geometric) proof that all invariants, including the lapse and shift, satisfy Poisson brackets that are equal to the invariants of their corresponding Dirac brackets.
Pons Josep Maria
Salisbury Donald C.
Sundermeyer K. A.
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