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In this paper the extension of the functional setting customarily adopted in General Relativity (GR) is considered. For this purpose, an explicit solution of the so-called Einstein's\ Teleparallel problem is sought. This is achieved by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-18 Massimo Tessarotto , Claudio Cremaschini

In this paper we review the canonical analysis of constrained systems and apply it in the case of teleparallel equivalent of general relativity and teleparallel gravity. For each of them we find all the Poisson brackets, generators of gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-08 Petar Mitrić

General covariance in quantum gravity is seen once one integrates over all possible metrics. In recent years topological field theories have given us a different route to general covariance without integrating over all possible metrics.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Andrew Toon

Gauge symmetries in teleparallel gravity, together with the identities among the dynamical equations they provide, are analyzed in relation to the way they condition the coupling between matter and gravity. Particularly, the coupling of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-02 Rafael Ferraro

The quantum gravity is formulated based on principle of local gauge invariance. The model discussed in this paper has local gravitational gauge symmetry and gravitational field appears as gauge field. The problems on quantization and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ning Wu

Gravity is identical to curved spacetime. It is manifested by the curvature of a Riemannian spacetime in general relativity but by torsion or non-metricity in teleparallel gravity models. In this paper, we apply these multiple options to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-18 Jian Gao , Yuxuan Kang , Mingzhe Li , Yeheng Tong

We present Hamilton's equations for the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR), which is a reformulation of general relativity based on a curvatureless, metric compatible, and torsionful connection. For this, we consider the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Laxmipriya Pati , Daniel Blixt , Maria-Jose Guzman

General Relativity and its higher derivative extensions have symmetric teleparallel reformulations in terms of the non-metricity tensor within a torsion-free and flat geometry. These notes present a derivation of the exact propagator for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-07 Aindriú Conroy , Tomi Koivisto

We investigate compact objects in modified teleparallel gravity with realistic equations of state. We propose a modification of Teleparallel Equivalent to General Relativity, then an appropriate tetrad is applied to the field equations. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-26 S. G. Vilhena , S. B. Duarte , M. Dutra , P. J. Pompeia

A nonlocal generalization of Einstein's theory of gravitation is constructed within the framework of the translational gauge theory of gravity. In the linear approximation, the nonlocal theory can be interpreted as linearized general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-24 Friedrich W. Hehl , Bahram Mashhoon

We construct the Effective Field Theory (EFT) of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR). Firstly, we present the necessary field redefinitions of the scalar field and the tetrads. Then we provide all the terms at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-12 Maria Mylova , Jackson Levi Said , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

General relativity (GR) admits two alternative formulations with the same dynamics attributing the gravitational phenomena to torsion or nonmetricity of the manifold's connection. They lead, respectively, to the teleparallel equivalent of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Maria-Jose Guzman

A brief discussion is made about the relevance of surface terms in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of theories of gravity. These surface terms play an important role in the variation of the action integral and in the definition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-25 J. W. Maluf , S. C. Ulhoa , J. F. da Rocha-Neto , F. L. Carneiro

The analogy between electrodynamics and the translational gauge theory of gravity is employed in this paper to develop an ansatz for a nonlocal generalization of Einstein's theory of gravitation. Working in the linear approximation, we show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Friedrich W. Hehl , Bahram Mashhoon

We present a new Hamiltonian formulation of the Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity (TEGR) meant to serve as the departure point for canonical quantization of the theory. TEGR is considered here as a theory of a cotetrad field on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-11 Andrzej Okolow

A complete perturbation theory suitable for teleparallel gravity is developed. The proposed perturbation scheme takes into account perturbations of the coframe, the metric, and the spin-connection, while ensuring that the resulting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-16 Alexandre Landry , Robert J. van den Hoogen

We discuss linear perturbations of the most general class of teleparallel spacetimes with cosmological symmetry, and perform a decomposition of these perturbations into irreducible components. We then study their behavior under gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-12 Manuel Hohmann

In theories such as teleparallel gravity and its extensions, the frame basis replaces the metric tensor as the primary object of study. A choice of coordinate system, frame basis and spin-connection must be made to obtain a solution from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-28 A. A. Coley , R. J. van den Hoogen , D. D. McNutt

The geometric trinity of gravity offers a platform in which gravity can be formulated in three analogous approaches, namely curvature, torsion and nonmetricity. In this vein, general relativity can be expressed in three dynamically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Salvatore Capozziello , Andrew Finch , Jackson Levi Said , Alessio Magro

We study tensor perturbations around the most general cosmologically symmetric backgrounds in a class of teleparallel gravity theories known as New General Relativity. These theories comprise a one-parameter class, which is fully consistent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-11 Manuel Hohmann , Christian Pfeifer