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Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Physical Review D

Volume

44

Issue

10

Publisher

American Physical Society

Publication Date

1991

First Page

3116

Last Page

3123

Abstract

The Isham-Kuchař representation theory of the spacetime diffeomorphism group in canonical geometrodynamics is implemented in the context of harmonic coordinate conditions. The representation is carried by either an extended phase space, consisting of the cotangent bundle over the space of three-metrics, spacelike embeddings, and Lagrange multipliers which serve to enforce the harmonic gauge in the action, or by a reduced space in which the multipliers are eliminated. The approach used here is applicable to any generally covariant theory and to any coordinate conditions. The physical interpretation of the diffeomorphism Hamiltonians is discussed and compared with the analogous interpretation given by us elsewhere in terms of Gaussian coordinate conditions.

Comments

Originally published by the American Physical Society. Publisher's PDF can be accessed through Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology. Note: Charles Torre was at Syracuse University at time of publication.

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