New Hamiltonians for gravity

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Grant, JDE
Moss, IG
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[1] Department of Physics, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
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10.1103/PhysRevD.56.6284
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P1 [天文学];
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A generalized canonical formulation of gravity is devised for foliations of spacetime with codimension n greater than or equal to 1. The new formalism retains n-dimensional covariance and is especially suited to 2 + 2 decompositions of spacetime. It is also possible to use the generalized formalism to obtain boundary contributions to the 3 + 1 Hamiltonian. [S0556-2821(97)03322-5].
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