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4D Palatini-Cartan Gravity in Hamiltonian Form

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-07-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this note the Hamiltonian formulation of four-dimensional gravity, in the Palatini-Cartan formalism, is recovered by elimination of an auxiliary field appearing as part of the connection.

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@article{arxiv.2507.02431,
  title  = {4D Palatini-Cartan Gravity in Hamiltonian Form},
  author = {Giovanni Canepa and Alberto S. Cattaneo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.02431},
  year   = {2025}
}

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18 pages. Updated bibliography

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