Hamiltonian analysis of the \textit{BFCG} formulation of general relativity

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAEE25MaRDI QIDQ3383544zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Miković, Miguel Oliveira, M. Vojinović

Publication date 24 September 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06354

zbMATH Keywords

algebra of constraintsBFCG modelgeneral relativityHamiltonian analysisPoincaré 2-groupspin-cube modelspin-foam model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We perform the complete Hamiltonian analysis of the BFCG action for General Relativity. We determine all the constraints of the theory and classify them into the first-class and the second-class constraints. We also show how the canonical formulation of BFCG General Relativity reduces to the Einstein-Cartan and triad canonical formulations. The reduced phase space analysis also gives a 2-connection which is suitable for the construction of a spin-foam basis which will be a categorical generalization of the spin-network basis from Loop Quantum Gravity.

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