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We present the Dirac Hamiltonian formalism for a pair of $1$-form fields with a topological-like potential coupled to first-order gravity in three-dimensional spacetime. By considering the complete phase space, we derive the full structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Omar Rodríguez-Tzompantzi

The total Hamiltonian in general relativity, which involves the first class Hamiltonian and momentum constraints, weakly vanishes. However, when the action is expanded around a classical solution as in the case of a single scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 Ali Kaya

We present new second derivative, generally covariant theories of gravity for spherically symmetric spacetimes (general covariance is in the $t-r$ plane) belonging to the class where the spherically symmetric Einstein-Hilbert theory is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Rakesh Tibrewala

It is shown that the Hamiltonian of the Einstein affine-metric (first order) formulation of General Relativity (GR) leads to a constraint structure that allows the restoration of its unique gauge invariance, four-diffeomorphism, without the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-09 N. Kiriushcheva , S. V. Kuzmin

Following our previous work, a complete classical solution of the CGHS model in Hamiltonian formulation in new variables is given. We preform a series of analyses and transformations to get to the CGHS Hamiltonian in new variables from a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-24 Saeed Rastgoo

A covariant Hamiltonian formulation generalizing De Donder-Weyl mechanics is constructed with field strengths as velocity fields. Since the teleparallel equivalents to general relativity are quadratic in field strengths, the field-strength…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 David Chester , Vipul Pandey

The degree of freedom of the scalar field in scalar-tensor gravity is employed as "time" to deparametrize the Hamiltonian constraint of the theory. The deparametrized system is then nonperturbatively quantized by the approach of loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-02 Faqiang Yuan , Haida Li , Shengzhi Li , Yongge Ma

We work out the description of the gauge symmetry of unimodular gravity in the constrained Hamiltonian formalism. In particular, we demonstrate how the transversality conditions restricting the diffeomorphism parameters emerge from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-07 I. Yu. Karataeva , S. L. Lyakhovich

The Hamiltonian constraint system is the canonical formulation of a physical system with a Hamiltonian constrained to vanish. In terms of the canonical variables, we define what we call reference observable, with respect to which other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-30 Junichi Iwasaki

We analyze different claims on the role of the coupling constant lambda in so-called lambda-R models, a minimal generalization of general relativity inspired by Horava-Lifshitz gravity. The dimensionless parameter lambda appears in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-24 R. Loll , L. Pires

The Hamiltoinian analysis of the vector-tensor theory of gravity is performed. The resulting geometrical dynamics is reformulated into the connection dynamics, with the real SU(2)-connection serving as one of the configuration variables.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Shengzhi Li , Yongge Ma

We study Birkhoff's theorem, which states the absence of time-dependent, spherically symmetric vacuum solutions in four-dimensional Horava gravity, which has been proposed as a renormalizable quantum gravity without the ghost problem. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-05 Deniz O. Devecioglu , Mu-In Park

Basic principles of the Hamilton approach developed for the metric General Relativity (Einstein`s GR) are discussed. In particular, we derive the Hamiltonian of the metric GR in the explicit form. This Hamiltonian is a quadratic function of…

General Physics · Physics 2016-01-15 Alexei M. Frolov

The framework of a theory of gravity from the quantum to the classical regime is presented. The paradigm shift from full spacetime covariance to spatial diffeomorphism invariance, together with clean decomposition of the canonical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-06 Chopin Soo , Hoi-Lai Yu

Einstein-aether theory is general relativity coupled to a dynamical, unit timelike vector. If this vector is restricted in the action to be hypersurface orthogonal, the theory is identical to the IR limit of the extension of Horava gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-24 Ted Jacobson

We investigated purely gravitational domain wall solutions to Horava nonrelativistic theory of gravity with detailed balance in 3 + 1 dimensions. We find that for arbitrary values of the running parameter {\lambda} > 1/3 two branches of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-12 Carlos R. Argüelles , Nicolás E. Grandi

In the present paper we have constructed a gauge invariant extension of a generic Horava Gravity (HG) model (with quadratic curvature terms) in linearized version in a systematic procedure. No additional fields are introduced. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Sudipta Das , Subir Ghosh

We quantize the Hamilton equations instead of the Hamilton condition. The resulting equation has the simple form $-\D u=0$ in a fiber bundle, where the Laplacian is the Laplacian of the Wheeler-DeWitt metric provided $n\not=4$. Using then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-20 Claus Gerhardt

We generalize the Hamiltonian picture of General Relativity coupled to classical matter, known as geometrodynamics, to the case where such matter is described by a Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime, but gravity is still described by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-20 J. L. Alonso , C. Bouthelier-Madre , J. Clemente-Gallardo , D. Martínez-Crespo

In General Relativity in Hamiltonian form, change has seemed to be missing, defined only asymptotically, or otherwise obscured at best, because the Hamiltonian is a sum of first-class constraints and a boundary term and thus supposedly…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2014-10-10 J. Brian Pitts