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Constants of motion for vacuum general relativity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-01-06 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The 3+1 Hamiltonian Einstein equations, reduced by imposing two commuting spacelike Killing vector fields, may be written as the equations of the SL(2,R)SL(2,R) principal chiral model with certain `source' terms. Using this formulation, we give a procedure for generating an infinite number of non-local constants of motion for this sector of the Einstein equations. The constants of motion arise as explicit functionals on the phase space of Einstein gravity, and are labelled by sl(2,R) indices.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9703087,
  title  = {Constants of motion for vacuum general relativity},
  author = {Viqar Husain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9703087},
  year   = {2010}
}

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10 pages, latex, version to appear in Phys. Rev. DR

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