Gravity and BF theory defined in bounded regions

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00371-4zbMath0935.83007arXivgr-qc/9703043OpenAlexW3100046233MaRDI QIDQ1362730

Viqar Husain, Seth A. Major

Publication date: 6 August 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9703043

zbMATH Keywords

variational principlefinite spatial regionfixed boundary metricnonvanishing Hamiltoniansurface observable algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General relativity (83C99) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

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