Hamiltonian Analysis In New General Relativity
Abstract
It is known that one can formulate an action in teleparallel gravity which is equivalent to general relativity, up to a boundary term. In this geometry we have vanishing curvature, and non-vanishing torsion. The action is constructed by three different contractions of torsion with specific coefficients. By allowing these coefficients to be arbitrary we get the theory which is called `new general relativity'. In this note, the Lagrangian for new general relativity is written down in ADM-variables. In order to write down the Hamiltonian we need to invert the velocities to canonical variables. However, the inversion depends on the specific combination of constraints satisfied by the theory (which depends on the coefficients in the Lagrangian). It is found that one can combine these constraints in 9 different ways to obtain non-trivial theories, each with a different inversion formula.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1905.11919,
title = {Hamiltonian Analysis In New General Relativity},
author = {Daniel Blixt and Manuel Hohmann and Martin Krššák and Christian Pfeifer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.11919},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
6 pages, 1 figure, talk delivered at the AT1 parallel session, "Hamiltonian Analysis In New General Relativity", at the 15th Marcel Grossmann Meeting 2018. Corrections of great importance have been implemented, which lead to changes in Fig. 1