ARNOWITT, Richard L., Stanley Deser, Charles W. Misner. “Dynamical Structure and Definition of Energy in General Relativity” December, 1959 Physical Review, vol 116 (1959) 1322-1330. Nice sharp copy, in original wrappers, removed from a larger bound volume. $125
- “In the context of general relativity, he was best known for his development (with Stanley Deser and Charles Misner) of the ADM formalism, roughly speaking a way of describing spacetime as space evolving in time, which allows a recasting of Einstein’s theory in terms of a more general formalism used in physics to describe dynamical systems, namely the Hamiltonian formalism. In the framework of that formalism, there is also a straightforward way to globally define quantities like energy or, equivalently, mass (so-called ADM mass/energy) which, in general relativity, is not trivial at all.”–Wiki
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_____. “Canonical Variables for General Relativity”, in Physical Review, volume 117, no. 6, March 15, 1960, pp 1595-1603. Original wrappers. Fine copy. $225