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Canonical structure of Tetrad Bimetric Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-09-04 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We perform the complete canonical analysis of the tetrad formulation of bimetric gravity and confirm that it is ghost-free describing the seven degrees of freedom of a massless and a massive gravitons. In particular, we find explicit expressions for secondary constraints, one of which is responsible for removing the ghost, whereas the other ensures the equivalence with the metric formulation. Both of them have a remarkably simple form and, being combined with conditions on Lagrange multipliers, can be written in a covariant way.

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@article{arxiv.1308.6586,
  title  = {Canonical structure of Tetrad Bimetric Gravity},
  author = {Sergei Alexandrov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.6586},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

19 pages; added references; minor corrections; misprints corrected