Conformal geometrodynamics regained: gravity from duality

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.02.017MaRDI QIDQ307193zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Henrique Gomes

Publication date 1 September 2016

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1699

zbMATH Keywords

ADM formulation of general relativitycanonical general relativityDirac constraint analysishypersurface deformation algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: There exist several ways of constructing general relativity from `first principles': Einstein's original derivation, Lovelock's results concerning the exceptional nature of the Einstein tensor from a mathematical perspective, and Hojman-Kuchav{r}-Teitelboim's derivation of the Hamiltonian form of the theory from the symmetries of spacetime, to name a few. Here I propose a different set of first principles to obtain general relativity in the canonical framework without presupposing spacetime in any way. I first require consistent propagation of scalar spatially covariant constraints. I find that up to a certain order in derivatives (four spatial and two temporal), there are large families of such consistently propagated constraints. Then I look for pairs of such constraints that can gauge-fix each other and form a theory with two dynamical degrees of freedom per emph{space} point. This demand singles out the ADM Hamiltonian either in i) CMC gauge, with arbitrary (finite, non-zero) speed of light, and an extra term linear in York time, or ii) a gauge where the Hubble parameter is conformally harmonic.

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