Abstract
I review the meaning of General Relativity, viewed as a dynamical field, rather than as geometry, as effected by the 1958-61“anti-geometrical” work of ADM. This very brief non-technical summary is intended for historians.
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This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under Award Number de-sc0011632.
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Deser, S. The ADM version of GR at Sixty: a brief account for historians. EPJ H 46, 14 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00019-4
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