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Degrees of freedom of $f(T)$ gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-08-01 v4 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We investigate the Hamiltonian formulation of f(T)f(T) gravity and find that there are five degrees of freedom. The six first class constraints corresponding to the local Lorentz transformation in Teleparallel gravity become second class constraints in f(T)f(T) gravity, which leads to the appearance of three extra degrees of freedom and the violation of the local Lorentz invariance in f(T)f(T) gravity. In general, there are D1D-1 extra degrees of freedom for f(T)f(T) gravity in DD dimensions, and this implies that the extra degrees of freedom correspond to one massive vector field or one massless vector field with one scalar field.

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@article{arxiv.1105.5934,
  title  = {Degrees of freedom of $f(T)$ gravity},
  author = {Miao Li and Rong-Xin Miao and Yan-Gang Miao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.5934},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

18 pages, some references added, minor revision to appear in JHEP