De Donder-Weyl Hamiltonian formalism of MacDowell-Mansouri gravity

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA924AzbMATH Open1381.83096arXiv1703.09755OpenAlexW3043007891WikidataQ62038279 ScholiaQ62038279MaRDI QIDQ4601009FDOQ4601009

Authors: J. Berra-Montiel, Alberto Molgado, David Serrano-Blanco 

Publication date: 18 January 2018

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

Abstract: We analyse the behaviour of the MacDowell-Mansouri action with internal symmetry group $mathrmSO(4,1)$ under the covariant Hamiltonian formulation. The field equations, known in this formalism as the De Donder-Weyl equations, are obtained by means of the graded Poisson-Gerstenhaber bracket structure present within the covariant formulation. The decomposition of the internal algebra $mathfrakso(4,1)simeqmathfrakso(3,1)oplusmathbb{R}^{3,1}$ allows the symmetry breaking $mathrmSO(4,1)omathrmSO(3,1)$, which reduces the original action to the Palatini action without the topological term. We demonstrate that, in contrast to the Lagrangian approach, this symmetry breaking can be performed indistinctly in the covariant Hamiltonian formalism either before or after the variation of the De Donder-Weyl Hamiltonian has been done, recovering Einstein's equations via the Poisson-Gerstenhaber bracket.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.09755

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zbMATH Keywords

gravityEinstein equationsgauge theoryHamiltonianPoisson-Gerstenhaber bracketpolysymplectic formalismDe Donder-Wey equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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