Published March 26, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Symmetry charges on reduced phase space and asymptotic flatness

  • 1. Department of Physics, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, Florida 33431-0991, USA
  • 2. Institut für Quantengravitation, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 7/B2, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
  • 3. College of Science, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, People's Republic of China

Description

This paper studies the reduced phase space formulation (relational formalism) of gravity coupling to the Brown-Kuchař dust for asymptotic flat spacetimes. A set of boundary conditions for the asymptotic flatness are formulated for Dirac observables on the reduced phase space. The physical Hamiltonian generates the time translation of the dust clock. We compute the boundary term of the physical Hamiltonian, which is identical to the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner mass. We construct a set of the symmetry charges on the reduced phase space, which are conserved by the physical Hamiltonian evolution. The symmetry charges generate transformations preserving the asymptotically flat boundary condition. Under the reduced-phase-space Poisson bracket, the symmetry charges form an infinite dimensional Lie algebra AG after adding a central charge. A suitable quotient of AG is analogous to the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs algebra at spatial infinity by Henneaux and Troessaert.

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.109.064079;
arXiv
arXiv:2309.03293;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/100000001; 10.13039/501100001652; 10.13039/501100021745; 10.13039/501100004381;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
35 pgs.
ISSN
1089-4918

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Copyright
© 2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
PHY-2207763
Notes
Contact Email: hanm@fau.edu; Contact Email: Corresponding author: htan2018@fau.edu; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
National Science Foundation; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Institut Périmètre de physique théorique; Western University