Canonical formulation of pp-waves

Autor(en)

Herbert Balasin, Peter Christian Aichelburg

Abstrakt

We construct a Hamiltonian formulation for the class of plane-fronted gravitational waves with parallel rays (pp-waves). Because of the existence of a light-like Killing vector, the dynamics is effectively reduced to a 2+1 evolution with "time" chosen to be light-like. In spite of the vanishing action this allows us to geometrically identify a symplectic form as well as dynamical Hamiltonian, thus casting the system into canonical form. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Organisation(en)

Gravitationsphysik

Externe Organisation(en)

Technische Universität Wien

Journal

General Relativity and Gravitation

Band

39

Seiten

1075-1085

Anzahl der Seiten

11

ISSN

0001-7701

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-007-0452-0

Publikationsdatum

2007

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

1030 Physik, Astronomie

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/ed2b7f8a-792a-48a4-b0f7-9385345f2f5b