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Gravitational Constraints which Generate a Lie Algebra

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-08-31 v1

Abstract

The coupling of gravity to dust helps to discover simple quadratic combinations of the gravitational super-Hamiltonian and supermomentum whose Poisson brackets strongly vanish. This leads to a new form of vacuum constraints which generate a true Lie algebra. We show that the coupling of gravity to a massless scalar field leads to yet another set of constraints with the same property, albeit not as simple as that based on the coupling to dust.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9501005,
  title  = {Gravitational Constraints which Generate a Lie Algebra},
  author = {Karel V. Kuchar and Joseph D. Romano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9501005},
  year   = {2016}
}

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10 pages, latex file, no figures

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