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A pure Dirac's canonical analysis, defined in the full phase space for the Husain-Kuchar model is discussed in detail. This approach allows us to determine the extended action, the extended Hamiltonian, the complete constraint algebra and…

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The most general action, quadratic in the B fields as well as in the curvature F, having SO(3,1) or SO(4) as the internal gauge group for a four-dimensional BF theory is presented and its symplectic geometry is displayed. It is shown that…

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