Gravitational \( \mathrm{SL} (2, \mathbb{R} )\) algebra on the light cone

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2021)057zbMATH Open1468.83020arXiv2104.05803OpenAlexW3181898449MaRDI QIDQ1981454

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Publication date: 3 September 2021

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Abstract: In a region with a boundary, the gravitational phase space consists of radiative modes in the interior and edge modes at the boundary. Such edge modes are necessary to explain how the region couples to its environment. In this paper, we characterise the edge modes and radiative modes on a null surface for the tetradic Palatini--Holst action. Our starting point is the definition of the action and its boundary terms. We choose the least restrictive boundary conditions possible. The fixed boundary data consists of the radiative modes alone (two degrees of freedom per point). All other boundary fields are dynamical. We introduce the covariant phase space and explain how the Holst term alters the boundary symmetries. To infer the Poisson brackets among Dirac observables, we define an auxiliary phase space, where the $SL(2mathbbR)$ symmetries of the boundary fields is manifest. We identify the gauge generators and second-class constraints that remove the auxiliary variables. All gauge generators are at most quadratic in the fundamental $SL(2,mathbbR)$ variables on phase space. We compute the Dirac bracket and identify the Dirac observables on the light cone. Finally, we discuss various truncations to quantise the system in an effective way.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05803

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