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A new parametrization of the 3-metric allows to find explicitly a York map by means of a partial Shanmugadhasan canonical transformation in canonical ADM tetrad gravity. This allows to identify the two pairs of physical tidal degrees of freedom (the Dirac observables of the gravitational field have to be built in term of them) and 14 gauge variables. These gauge quantities, whose role in describing generalized inertial effects is clarified, are all configurational except one, the York time, i.e. the trace \(^{3}K(\tau ,\vec \sigma )\) of the extrinsic curvature of the instantaneous 3-spaces \(\Sigma_{\tau}\) (corresponding to a clock synchronization convention) of a non-inertial frame centered on an arbitrary observer. In \(\Sigma_{\tau}\) the Dirac Hamiltonian is the sum of the weak ADM energy \(E_{\rm ADM} = \int d^3\sigma\, {\mathcal{E}}_{\rm ADM}(\tau ,\vec \sigma )\) (whose density \({\mathcal{E}}_{\rm ADM}(\tau ,\vec \sigma )\) is coordinate-dependent, containing the inertial potentials) and of the first-class constraints. The main results of the paper, deriving from a coherent use of constraint theory, are: (i) The explicit form of the Hamilton equations for the two tidal degrees of freedom of the gravitational field in an arbitrary gauge: a deterministic evolution can be defined only in a completely fixed gauge, i.e. in a non-inertial frame with its pattern of inertial forces. The simplest such gauge is the 3-orthogonal one, but other gauges are discussed and the Hamiltonian interpretation of the harmonic gauges is given. This frame-dependence derives from the geometrical view of the gravitational field and is lost when the theory is reduced to a linear spin 2 field on a background space-time. (ii) A general solution of the super-momentum constraints, which shows the existence of a generalized Gribov ambiguity associated to the 3-diffeomorphism gauge group. It influences: (a) the explicit form of the solution of the super-momentum constraint and then of the Dirac Hamiltonian; (b) the determination of the shift functions and then of the lapse one. (iii) The dependence of the Hamilton equations for the two pairs of dynamical gravitational degrees of freedom (the generalized tidal effects) and for the matter, written in a completely fixed 3-orthogonal Schwinger time gauge, upon the gauge variable \({}^3K(\tau ,\vec \sigma )\) , determining the convention of clock synchronization. The associated relativistic inertial effects, absent in Newtonian gravity and implying inertial forces changing from attractive to repulsive in regions with different sign of \({}^3K(\tau ,\vec \sigma )\) , are completely unexplored and may have astrophysical relevance in the interpretation of the dark side of the universe.
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Alba, D., Lusanna, L. The York map as a Shanmugadhasan canonical transformation in tetrad gravity and the role of non-inertial frames in the geometrical view of the gravitational field. Gen Relativ Gravit 39, 2149–2203 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-007-0507-2
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