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The N-Body Problem in Tetrad Gravity: A First Step towards a Unified Description of the Four Interactions

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After a review of the canonical reduction to the rest-frame Wigner-covariant instant form of standard theories in Minkowski spacetime, a new formulation of tetrad gravity is introduced. Its canonical reduction, in the presence of N scalar particles, is carried out. A modification of the ADM formulation to solve the deparametrization problem of general relativity (how to recover the rest-frame instant form for G = 0) is presented.

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Lusanna, L. (2000). The N-Body Problem in Tetrad Gravity: A First Step towards a Unified Description of the Four Interactions. In: Casciaro, B., Fortunato, D., Francaviglia, M., Masiello, A. (eds) Recent Developments in General Relativity. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2113-6_13

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