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Hamiltonian analysis of non-projectable modified F(R) Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-06-07 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study a version of the recently proposed modified F(R)F(R) Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity that abandons the projectability condition of the lapse variable. We discovered that the projectable version of this theory has a consistent Hamiltonian structure, and that the theory has interesting cosmological solutions which can describe the eras of accelerated expansion of the universe in a unified manner. The usual Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity is a special case of our theory. Hamiltonian analysis of the non-projectable theory, however, shows that this theory has serious problems. These problems are compared with those found in the original Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity. A general observation on the structure of the Poisson bracket of Hamiltonian constraints in all theories of the Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz type is made: in the resulting tertiary constraint the highest order spatial derivative of the lapse NN is always of uneven order. Since the vanishing of the lapse (N=0) is required by the preservation of the Hamiltonian constraints under time evolution, we conclude that the non-projectable version of the theory is physically inconsistent.

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@article{arxiv.1006.3235,
  title  = {Hamiltonian analysis of non-projectable modified F(R) Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity},
  author = {Masud Chaichian and Markku Oksanen and Anca Tureanu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.3235},
  year   = {2012}
}

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