Hamiltonian formulation of curvature squared action

DOI10.1007/S10714-005-0173-1MaRDI QIDQ2494034zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Abhik Kumar Sanyal

Publication date 16 June 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0407141

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy problemfourth-order gravityquantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: It has been observed earlier that, in principle, it is possible to obtain a quantum mechanical interpretation of higher order quantum cosmological models in the spatially homogeneous and isotropic background, if auxiliary variable required for the Hamiltonian formulation of the theory is chosen properly. It was suggested that for such a choice, it is required to get rid of all the total derivative terms from the action containing higher order curvature invariant terms, prior to the introduction of auxiliary variable. Here, the earlier work has been modified and it is shown that the action, $$ should be supplemented by a boundary term in the form $$, where, ${}^{3}R$, $K$ and $h$ are the Ricci scalar for three-space, trace of the extrinsic curvature and determinant of the metric on the three space respectively. The result has been tested in the background of homogeneous and anisotropic models and thus confirmed.

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