An Ostrogradsky instability analysis of non-minimally coupled Weyl connection gravity theories

DOI10.1007/S10714-021-02784-5zbMath1482.83005arXiv2004.00544OpenAlexW3014221894MaRDI QIDQ2060456

Rodrigo Baptista, Orfeu Bertolami

Publication date: 13 December 2021

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00544

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian formalismWeyl connectionnon-minimally coupled gravity theoriesOstrogradsky instabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bifurcations and instability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K50) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Connections (general theory) (53C05)

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