Canonical general relativity: the primary constraint algebra
- 1 October 1983
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 16 (14) , 3355-3360
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/16/14/026
Abstract
Discusses the canonical treatment of general relativity in a vierbein formulation. The authors derive the primary constraints, and find that they satisfy an algebra the same as that of the generators of local Poincare transformations, namely the Poincare algebra.Keywords
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