The gravitational Hamiltonian, first order action, Poincaré charges and surface terms

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/19/195024zbMath1327.83020arXiv1505.01518OpenAlexW3103137309WikidataQ57564289 ScholiaQ57564289MaRDI QIDQ3453201

Alejandro Corichi, Juan D. Reyes

Publication date: 20 November 2015

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.01518

zbMATH Keywords

variational principlesHamiltonian formulationboundary termsasymptotic conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

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