Deformations of GR, geometrodynamics and reality conditions

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABE756MaRDI QIDQ5163359zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ermis Mitsou, Kirill Krasnov

Publication date 3 November 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05706

zbMATH Keywords

canonical formalism for gravitymodified gravityself-duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry (14D15) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: In four dimensions complexified General Relativity (GR) can be non-trivially deformed: There exists an (infinite-parameter) set of modifications all having the same count of degrees of freedom. It is trivial to impose reality conditions that give versions of the deformed theories corresponding to Riemannian and split metric signatures. We revisit the Lorentzian signature case. To make the problem tractable, we restrict our attention to a four-parameter set of deformations that are natural extensions of Ashtekar's Hamiltonian formalism for GR. The Hamiltonian of the later is a linear combination of $EEE$ and $EEB$. We consider theories for which the Hamiltonian constraint is a general linear combination of $EEE,EEB,EBB$ and $BBB$. Our main result is the computation of the evolution equations for the modified theories as geometrodynamics evolution equations for the 3-metric. We show that only for GR (and the related theory of Self-Dual Gravity) these equations close in the sense that they can be written in terms of only the metric and its first time derivative. Modified theories are therefore seen to be essentially non-metric in the sense that their dynamics cannot be reduced to geometrodynamics. We then show this to be related to the problem with Lorentzian reality conditions: the conditions of reality of the 3-metric and its time derivative are not acceptable because they are not preserved by the dynamics. Put differently, their conservation implies extra reality conditions on higher-order time derivatives, which then leaves no room for degrees of freedom.

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