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The Poisson bracket on free null initial data for gravity

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arxiv 0712.2541 v4 pith:6JMZMEIF submitted 2007-12-15 gr-qc

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Free initial data for general relativity on a pair of intersecting null hypersurfaces are well known, but the lack of a Poisson bracket and concerns about caustics have stymied the development of a constraint free canonical theory. Here it is pointed out how caustics and generator crossings can be neatly avoided and a Poisson bracket on free data is given. On sufficiently regular functions of the solution spacetime geometry this bracket matches the Poisson bracket defined on such functions by the Hilbert action via Peierls' prescription. The symplectic form is also given in terms of free data.

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