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Phys. Rev. D 48, R2373–R2376 (1993)

Gravitational observables and local symmetries

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C. G. Torre
Department of Physics, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322-4415

Received 28 June 1993; published in the issue dated 15 September 1993

Using a recent classification of local symmetries of the vacuum Einstein equations, it is shown that there can be no observables for the vacuum gravitational field (in a closed universe) built as spatial integrals of local functions of Cauchy data and their derivatives.

© 1993 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.48.R2373
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.48.R2373
PACS:
04.20.Cv, 04.20.Me, 04.60.+n