Canonical Formulation of pp-waves
| dc.creator | Balasin, Herbert | |
| dc.creator | Aichelburg, Peter | |
| dc.date | 2007-05-02 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:59:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:59:53Z | |
| dc.description | 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. | |
| dc.description | To appear in the "Obregon Festschrift" | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0228 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0228 | |
| dc.identifier | Gen.Rel.Grav.39:1075-1085,2007 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1007/s10714-007-0452-0 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/187559 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | Canonical Formulation of pp-waves | |
| dc.type | text |