Weakly Isolated Horizons: decomposition and canonical formulations in self-dual variables
arXiv:2207.10220 · doi:10.1088/1361-6382/aca867
Abstract
The notion of Isolated Horizons has played an important role in gravitational physics, being useful from the characterization of the endpoint of black hole mergers to (quantum) black hole entropy. In particular, the definition of {\it weakly} isolated horizons (WIHs) as quasilocal generalizations of event horizons is purely geometrical, and is independent of the variables used in describing the gravitational field. Here we consider a canonical decomposition of general relativity in terms of connection and vierbein variables starting from a first order action. Within this approach, the information about the existence of a (weakly) isolated horizon is obtained through a set of boundary conditions on an internal boundary of the spacetime region under consideration. We employ, for the self-dual action, a generalization of the Dirac algorithm for regions with boundary. While the formalism for treating gauge theories with boundaries is unambiguous, the choice of dynamical variables on the boundary is not. We explore this freedom and consider different canonical formulations for non-rotating black holes as defined by WIHs. We show that both the notion of horizon degrees of freedom and energy associated to the horizon is not unique, even when the descriptions might be self-consistent. This represents a generalization of previous work on isolated horizons both in the exploration of this freedom and in the type of horizons considered. We comment on previous results found in the literature.
arXiv comment33 pages, no figures. Typos corrected
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