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 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