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

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAEE25zbMATH Open1475.83116arXiv1807.06354OpenAlexW3101548008MaRDI QIDQ3383544FDOQ3383544

Authors: A. Miković, Miguel Oliveira, M. Vojinović 

Publication date: 24 September 2021

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

general relativityHamiltonian analysisalgebra of constraintsBFCG modelPoincaré 2-groupspin-cube modelspin-foam model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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