The York map is a canonical transformation

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(84)90015-9zbMath0589.53071OpenAlexW2037987651MaRDI QIDQ1074147

Jerrold E. Marsden, James A. Isenberg

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0393-0440(84)90015-9

zbMATH Keywords

symplectic geometryEinstein equationEinstein-Maxwell theorysymplectic mappresymplectic varietiesYork map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Geometric quantization (53D50)

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