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We consider a modified gravity model which we call "dynamical Henneaux-Teitelboim gravity" because of its close relationship with the Henneaux-Teitelboim formulation of unimodular gravity. The latter is a fully diffeomorphism-invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Emma Albertini , Kyle Barnes , Gabriel Herczeg

Unimodularity can be implemented in different ways. In this paper we consider only the formulation of Unimodular Gravity in which the unimodular metric is obtained out of an unrestricted one as $\g_{\m\n}=|g|^{-{1\over n}} g_{\m\n}$. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-19 Enrique Alvarez , Jesus Anero , Irene Sanchez-Ruiz

The conformal invariance of unimodular gravity survives quantum corrections, even in the presence of conformal matter. Unimodular gravity can actually be understood as a certain truncation of the full Einstein-Hilbert theory, where in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Enrique Álvarez , Mario Herrero-Valea

We extend the formalism of the Einstein-Hilbert unimodular gravity in the context of modified $F(R)$ gravity. After appropriately modifying the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric in a way that it becomes compatible to the unimodular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-01 S. Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou

A quantization of unimodular gravity is described, which results in a quantum effective action which is also unimodular, ie a function of a metric with fixed determinant. A consequence is that contributions to the energy momentum tensor of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Lee Smolin

This paper is devoted to the Hamiltonian analysis of bimetric gravity in vierbein formulation. We identify all constraints and determine their nature. We also show an existence of additional constraint so that the scalar mode can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Kluson

In this paper, two things are done. (i) Using cohomological techniques, we explore the consistent deformations of linearized conformal gravity in 4 dimensions. We show that the only possibility involving no more than 4 derivatives of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-27 N. Boulanger , M. Henneaux

The Hamiltonian form of the Hilbert action in the first order tetrad formalism is examined. We perform a non-linear field redefinition of the canonical variables isolating the part of the spin connection which is canonically conjugate to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Maximo Banados , Mauricio Contreras

We discuss a covariant setting for Hamiltonian formalism in a relativistic field theory and we use this to obtain again the properties of Hamilton principal functional in Newtonian mechanics, relativistic mechanics, Klein-Gordon,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Lorenzo Fatibene , Marco Ferraris , Andrea Orizzonte

We present a new approach to the covariant canonical formulation of Einstein-Cartan gravity that preserves the full Lorentz group as the local gauge group. The method exploits lessons learned from gravity in 2+1 dimensions regarding the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Andrew Randono

We present an alternative formulation of generalized unimodular gravity (GUMG), a class of modifications to general relativity characterized by a special partial breaking of general coordinate covariance. The action for this formulation is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-22 Dmitry Nesterov

We perform a manifestly covariant quantization of a Weyl invariant, i.e., a locally scale invariant, scalar-tensor gravity in the extended de Donder gauge condition (or harmonic gauge condition) for general coordinate invariance and a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Ichiro Oda

We compare the path integral for transition functions in unimodular gravity and in general relativity. In unimodular gravity the cosmological constant is a property of states that are specified at the boundaries whereas in general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-28 Wilfried Buchmuller , Norbert Dragon

In a first part we propose an introduction to multisymplectic formalisms, which are generalisations of Hamilton's formulation of Mechanics to the calculus of variations with several variables: we give some physical motivations, related to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederic Helein

We summarise a recently introduced general canonical formulation of discrete systems which is fully equivalent to the covariant formalism. This framework can handle varying phase space dimensions and is applied to simplicial gravity in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Philipp A. Hoehn

We present the BRST formalism of a Weyl conformal gravity in Weyl geometry. Choosing the extended de Donder gauge-fixing condition (or harmonic gauge condition) for the general coordinate invariance and the new scalar gauge-fixing for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Ichiro Oda , Philipp Saake

In this work, we investigate modular Hamiltonians defined with respect to arbitrary spatial regions in quantum field theory states which have semi-classical gravity duals. We find prescriptions in the gravity dual for calculating the action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-30 Daniel L. Jafferis , S. Josephine Suh

A crucial property of Weyl gravity is its conformal invariance. It is shown how this gauge symmetry is exactly reflected by the two constraints in the Hamiltonian framework. Since the spatial 3-metric is one of the configuration variables,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-26 Qian Chen , Yongge Ma

We present the manifestly covariant canonical operator formalism of a Weyl invariant (or equivalently, a locally scale invariant) gravity whose classical action consists of the well-known conformal gravity and Weyl invariant scalar-tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-17 Ichiro Oda , Misaki Ohta

A covariant hamiltonian formalism for the dynamics of compact spinning bodies in curved space-time in the test-particle limit is described. The construction allows a large class of hamiltonians accounting for specific properties and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-21 J. W. van Holten