Canonical formulation of the curvature-squared action in the presence of a lapse function

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/29/21/215007MaRDI QIDQ4920159zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Abhik Kumar Sanyal, Subhra Debnath, Soumendranath Ruz

Publication date 16 May 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5869

zbMATH Keywords

canonical quantizationEinstein-Hilbert actionHamiltonian constraintBianchi-III minisuperspace metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Lapse function appears as Lagrange multiplier in Einstein-Hilbert action and its variation leads to the (0 0) equation of Einstein, which corresponds to the Hamiltonian constraint equation. In higher order theory of gravity the situation is not that simple. Here, we take up the curvature squared (R^2) action being supplemented by an appropriate boundary term in the background of Robertson-Walker minisuperspace metric, and show how to identify the constraint equation and formulate the Hamiltonian without detailed constraint analysis. The action is finally expressed in the canonical form $A=int(dot{h}_{ij}p{i}^{ij}+dot{K}_{ij}P{i}^{ij}-NmathcalH)dtsim{d}^{3}x$, where, the lapse function appears as Lagrange multiplier, once again. Canonical quantization yields Schr"odinger like equation, with nice features. To show that our result is not an artifact of having reduced the theory to a measure zero subset of its configuration space, the role of the lapse function as Lagrangian multiplier has also been investigated in Bianchi-I, Kantowski-Sachs and Bianchi-III minisuperspace metrics. Classical and semiclassical solutions have finally been presented.

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