On the Canonical Reduction of Spherically Symmetric Gravity

Details On the Canonical Reduction of Spherically Symmetric Gravity On the Canonical Reduction of Spherically Symmetric Gravity

1995-08-11

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9508028v3

Class.Quant.Grav.13:1541-1570,1996

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Revtex, 35 pages, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/13/6/020

In a thorough paper Kuchar has examined the canonical reduction of the most general action functional describing the geometrodynamics of the maximally extended Schwarzschild geometry. This reduction yields the true degrees of freedom for (vacuum) spherically symmetric general relativity. The essential technical ingredient in Kuchar's analysis is a canonical transformation to a certain chart on the gravitational phase space which features the Schwarzschild mass parameter $M_{S}$, expressed in terms of what are essentially Arnowitt-Deser-Misner variables, as a canonical coordinate. In this paper we discuss the geometric interpretation of Kuchar's canonical transformation in terms of the theory of quasilocal energy-momentum in general relativity given by Brown and York. We find Kuchar's transformation to be a ``sphere-dependent boost to the rest frame," where the ``rest frame'' is defined by vanishing quasilocal momentum. Furthermore, our formalism is general enough to cover the case of (vacuum) two-dimensional dilaton gravity. Therefore, besides reviewing Kucha\v{r}'s original work for Schwarzschild black holes from the framework of hyperbolic geometry, we present new results concerning the canonical reduction of Witten-black-hole geometrodynamics.

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