The Global Problem of Time

Details The Global Problem of Time The Global Problem of Time

1992-05-29

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9205112v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

8 pp., McGill 92-15

Scientific paper

Time does not obviously appear amongst the coordinates on the constrained phase space of general relativity in the Hamiltonian formulation. Recent work in finite-dimensional models claims that topological obstructions generically make the global definition of time impossible. It is shown here that a time coordinate can be globally defined on a constrained phase space by patching together local time coordinates, just as coordinates are defined on topologically non-trivial manifolds.

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