From Einstein's Hole Argument to Dirac and Bergmann Observables

2003/02/21 by Luca Lusanna, Lusanna, Luca
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0302089

Latex, 21 pages, Talk given at the 15th SIGRAV Conference on {\it General Relativity and Gravitational Physics}, Villa Mondragone (Roma), September 6-10, 2002

arxiv created 2003/02/21 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

The individuation of point-events and the Hamiltonian way of distinguishing gravitational from inertial effects in general relativity are discussed.

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