Diffeomorphisms as Symplectomorphisms in History Phase Space: Bosonic String Model

Details Diffeomorphisms as Symplectomorphisms in History Phase Space: Bosonic String Model Diffeomorphisms as Symplectomorphisms in History Phase Space: Bosonic String Model

2001-08-08

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0108022v2

Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 125026

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

45 pages, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.65.125026

The structure of the history phase space $\cal G$ of a covariant field system and its history group (in the sense of Isham and Linden) is analyzed on an example of a bosonic string. The history space $\cal G$ includes the time map $\sf T$ from the spacetime manifold (the two-sheet) $\cal Y$ to a one-dimensional time manifold $\cal T$ as one of its configuration variables. A canonical history action is posited on $\cal G$ such that its restriction to the configuration history space yields the familiar Polyakov action. The standard Dirac-ADM action is shown to be identical with the canonical history action, the only difference being that the underlying action is expressed in two different coordinate charts on $\cal G$. The canonical history action encompasses all individual Dirac-ADM actions corresponding to different choices $\sf T$ of foliating $\cal Y$. The history Poisson brackets of spacetime fields on $\cal G$ induce the ordinary Poisson brackets of spatial fields in the instantaneous phase space ${\cal G}_{0}$ of the Dirac-ADM formalism. The canonical history action is manifestly invariant both under spacetime diffeomorphisms Diff$\cal Y$ and temporal diffeomorphisms Diff$\cal T$. Both of these diffeomorphisms are explicitly represented by symplectomorphisms on the history phase space $\cal G$. The resulting classical history phase space formalism is offered as a starting point for projection operator quantization and consistent histories interpretation of the bosonic string model.

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