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Gravitational Observables and Local Symmetries

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-01-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Using a recent classification of local symmetries of the vacuum Einstein equations, it is shown that there can be no observables for the vacuum gravitational field (in a closed universe) built as spatial integrals of local functions of Cauchy data and their derivatives.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9306030,
  title  = {Gravitational Observables and Local Symmetries},
  author = {C. G. Torre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9306030},
  year   = {2010}
}

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10 pages