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