G2-manifolds and the ADM formalism

In this paper we study a Hamiltonian function on the cotangent bundle of the space of Riemannian metrics on a 3-manifold M and prove the orbits of the constrained Hamiltonian dynamical system correspond to $G_2$-manifolds foliated by hypersurfaces diffeomorphic to $M\times \mathrm{SO}(3)$.