Edge modes as dynamical frames: charges from post-selection in generally covariant theories

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.00913v2
• Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 16:05:58 GMT
• Title: Edge modes as dynamical frames: charges from post-selection in generally covariant theories
• Authors: Sylvain Carrozza, Stefan Eccles, Philipp A. Hoehn
• Abstract summary: We develop a framework based on the covariant phase space formalism that identifies gravitational edge modes as dynamical reference frames. We study the symmetries consistent with such an embedding. We explain how the boundary conditions and presymplectic structure can be encoded into boundary actions.
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• Abstract: We develop a framework based on the covariant phase space formalism that identifies gravitational edge modes as dynamical reference frames. They enable the identification of the associated spacetime region and the imposition of boundary conditions in a gauge-invariant manner. While recent proposals considered the finite region in isolation and sought the maximal symmetry algebra compatible with that perspective, we regard it as a subregion embedded in a global spacetime and study the symmetries consistent with such an embedding. This clarifies that the frame, although appearing as "new" for the subregion, is built out of the field content of the complement. Given a global variational principle, this also permits us to invoke a systematic post-selection procedure, previously used in gauge theory [arXiv:2109.06184], to produce consistent dynamics for a subregion with timelike boundary. Requiring the subregion presymplectic structure to be conserved by the dynamics leads to an essentially unique prescription and unambiguous Hamiltonian charges. Unlike other proposals, this has the advantage that all spacetime diffeomorphisms acting on the subregion remain gauge and integrable, thus generating a first-class constraint algebra. By contrast, diffeomorphisms acting on the frame-dressed spacetime are physical, and those that are parallel to the boundary are integrable. Further restricting to ones preserving the boundary conditions yields an algebra of conserved charges. These record changes in the relation between the region and its complement as measured by frame reorientations. Finally, we explain how the boundary conditions and presymplectic structure can be encoded into boundary actions. While our formalism applies to any generally covariant theory, we illustrate it on general relativity, and conclude with a detailed comparison of our findings to earlier works. [abridged]

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