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The gauge group in the real triad formulation of general relativity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-25 v1

Abstract

We construct explicitly generators of projectable four-dimensional diffeomorphisms and triad rotation gauge symmetries in a model of vacuum gravity where the fundamental dynamical variables in a Palatini formulation are taken to be a lapse, shift, densitized triad, extrinsic curvature, and the time-like components of the Ricci rotation coefficient. Time-foliation-altering diffeomorphisms are not by themselves projectable under the Legendre transformations. They must be accompanied by a metric- and triad-dependent triad rotation. The phase space on which these generators act includes all of the gauge variables of the model.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9912087,
  title  = {The gauge group in the real triad formulation of general relativity},
  author = {J. M. Pons and D. C. Salisbury and L. C. Shepley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9912087},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Submitted to Gen. Rel. Grav. - 8 pages