On the relationship between modifications to the Raychaudhuri equation and the canonical Hamiltonian structures

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/12/125001zbMATH Open1342.83016arXiv1512.07473OpenAlexW3098910840WikidataQ62273546 ScholiaQ62273546MaRDI QIDQ2994593FDOQ2994593

Authors: Parampreet Singh, S. K. Soni 

Publication date: 2 August 2016

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The problem of obtaining canonical Hamiltonian structures from the equations of motion, without any knowledge of the action, is studied in the context of the spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker models. Modifications to Raychaudhuri equation are implemented independently as quadratic and cubic terms of energy density without introducing additional degrees of freedom. Depending on their sign, modifications make gravity repulsive above a curvature scale for matter satisfying strong energy condition, or more attractive than in the classical theory. Canonical structure of the modified theories is determined demanding that the total Hamiltonian be a linear combination of gravity and matter Hamiltonians. In the quadratic repulsive case, the modified canonical phase space of gravity is a polymerized phase space with canonical momentum as inverse trigonometric function of Hubble rate; the canonical Hamiltonian can be identified with the effective Hamiltonian in loop quantum cosmology. The repulsive cubic modification results in a `generalized polymerized' canonical phase space. Both of the repulsive modifications are found to yield singularity avoidance. In contrast, the quadratic and cubic attractive modifications result in a canonical phase space in which canonical momentum is non-trigonometric and singularities persist. Our results hint on connections between repulsive/attractive nature of modifications to gravity arising from gravitational sector and polymerized/non-polymerized gravitational phase space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.07473

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zbMATH Keywords

inverse methodsloop quantum cosmologymodified gravity scenarios

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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