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 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 gravity, which leads to the appearance of three extra degrees of freedom and the violation of the local Lorentz invariance in gravity. In general, there are extra degrees of freedom for gravity in 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