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Phys. Rev. D 55, 1112–1113 (1997)

Comment on “Hypertime formalism for spherically symmetric black holes and wormholes”

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Joseph D. Romano
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201

Received 16 January 1996; published in the issue dated 15 January 1997

The hypertime formalism for spherically symmetric spacetimes given by Braham suffers from the so-called spacetime problem of time. The canonical variables T± introduced there are not spacetime scalars, and thus fail to qualify as embedding variables for the theory.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.55.1112
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.55.1112
PACS:
04.20.Gz, 04.60.Ds, 04.70.Dy

See Also

Original Article: Stephen P. Braham, Hypertime formalism for spherically symmetric black holes and wormholes, Phys. Rev. D 51, 536 (1995).