Canonical geometrodynamics and general covariance

Foundations of Physics 16 (3):193-208 (1986)
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By extending geometrodynamical phase space by embeddings and their conjugate momenta, one can homomorphically map the Lie algebra of space-time diffeomorphisms into the Poisson algebra of dynamical variables on the extended phase space

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