Introduction to Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity and homogeneous cosmologies
We give a pedagogical introduction to the Hamiltonian formalism of general relativity at an advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. After covering the mathematical pre-requisites as well as the 3+1-decomposition of spacetime, we proceed to discuss the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) formalism (a Ham...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SciPost
2023-08-01
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Series: | SciPost Physics Lecture Notes |
Online Access: | https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysLectNotes.73 |