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Variational formalism in the extended phase space for fields is applied to gravity. It is shown that the requirement of invariance under arbitrary local inertial frames implies a coupling of torsion to a 3-form of matter fields on the one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-04 Pankaj Sharan

When tetrad (metric) fields are not invertible, the standard canonical formulation of gravity cannot be adopted as it is. Here we develop a Hamiltonian theory of gravity for non-invertible tetrad. In contrast to Einstein gravity, this phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-13 Sandipan Sengupta

In the conventional formulation of general relativity, gravity is represented by the metric curvature of Riemannian geometry. There are also alternative formulations in flat affine geometries, wherein the gravitational dynamics is instead…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-14 Muzaffer Adak , Tekin Dereli , Tomi S. Koivisto , Caglar Pala

We study a noncommutative theory of gravity in the framework of torsional spacetime. This theory is based on a Lagrangian obtained by applying the technique of dimensional reduction of noncommutative gauge theory and that the yielded…

General Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Aref Yazdani

In this article, we focus on symmetric teleparallel gravity, a modification of General Relativity where gravity is described by the non-metricity of an affine connection, whose curvature and torsion vanish. In these theories, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-17 Manuel Hohmann , Vasiliki Karanasou

We investigate modified theories of gravity in the context of teleparallel geometries. It is well known that modified gravity models based on the torsion scalar are not invariant under local Lorentz transformations while modifications based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-30 Sebastian Bahamonde , Christian G. Boehmer , Matthew Wright

Teleparallel gravity has significantly increased in popularity in recent decades, bringing attention to Einstein's other theory of gravity. In this Review, we relate this form of geometry to the broader metric-affine approach to forming…

The Palatini formalism is developed for gravitational theories in flat geometries. We focus on two particularly interesting scenarios. First, we fix the connection to be metric compatible, but we follow a completely covariant approach by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-05 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Lavinia Heisenberg , Tomi Koivisto

Teleparallel Gravity is a gauge theory where gravity is a manifestation of the torsion of space-time and its success relies on being a possible solution to some problems of General Relativity. In this essay we introduce the construction of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-12 Geovanny A. Rave-Franco , Celia Escamilla-Rivera

In the general relativistic description of gravitation, geometry replaces the concept of force. This is possible because of the universal character of free fall, and would break down in its absence. On the other hand, the teleparallel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Aldrovandi , J. G. Pereira , K. H. Vu

We examine the variational and conformal structures of higher order theories of gravity which are derived from a metric-connection Lagrangian that is an arbitrary function of the curvature invariants. We show that the constrained first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Cotsakis , J. Miritzis , L. Querella

The superstring and superbrane theories which include gravity as a necessary and fundamental part renew an interest to alternative representations of general relativity as well as the alternative models of gravity. We study the coframe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Yakov Itin

The restoration of spin connection clarifies the long known local Lorentz invariance problem in telelparallel gravities. It is considered now that any tetrad together with the associated spin connection can be equally utilized. Among the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-13 Rui-Hui Lin , Xiang-Hua Zhai

A 2D symmetric teleparallel gravity model is given by a generic 4-parameter action that is quadratic in the non-metricity tensor. Variational field equations are derived. A class of conformally flat solutions is given. We also discuss…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Adak , T. Dereli

The fundamentals of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity are presented, and its main properties described. In particular, the field equations, the definition of an energy--momentum density for the gravitational field, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. C. de Andrade , L. C. T. Guillen , J. G. Pereira

The field equations of a special class of teleparallel theory of gravitation and electromagnetic fields have been applied to tetrad space having cylindrical symmetry with four unknown functions of radial coordinate $r$ and azimuth angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gamal G. L. Nashed

The main result of the paper is a new representation for the Weyl Lagrangian (massless Dirac Lagrangian). As the dynamical variable we use the coframe, i.e. an orthonormal tetrad of covector fields. We write down a simple Lagrangian - wedge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Dmitri Vassiliev

Teleparallel geometry utilizes Weitzenb\"ock connection which has nontrivial torsion but no curvature and does not directly follow from the metric like Levi-Civita connection. In extended teleparallel theories, for instance in $f(T)$ or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-30 Laur Järv , Manuel Hohmann , Martin Krššák , Christian Pfeifer

Using the Dirac procedure to treat constraints dynamical sistems applied to gravitation, as described in the context of Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity (TEGR), we investigate, from the first class constraints, the gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-02 L. R. A. Belo , E. P. Spaniol , J. A. de Deus , V. C. de Andrade

We develop the effective field theory approach to torsional modified gravities, a formalism that allows for the systematic investigation of the background and perturbation levels separately. Starting from the usual effective field theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-03 Chunlong Li , Yong Cai , Yi-Fu Cai , Emmanuel N. Saridakis