scholarly journals HAMILTONIAN ANALYSIS OF POINCARÉ GAUGE THEORY SCALAR MODES

1999 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. 459-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
HWEI-JANG YO ◽  
JAMES M. NESTER

The Hamiltonian constraint formalism is used to obtain the first explicit complete analysis of nontrivial viable dynamic modes for the Poincaré gauge theory of gravity. Two modes with propagating spin-zero torsion are analyzed. The explicit form of the Hamiltonian is presented. All constraints are obtained and classified. The Lagrange multipliers are derived. It is shown that a massive spin -0- mode has normal dynamical propagation but the associated massless 0- is pure gauge. The spin -0+ mode investigated here is also viable in general. Both modes exhibit a simple type of "constraint bifurcation" for certain special field/parameter values.

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (30) ◽  
pp. 1350160 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSEF KLUSOŇ

In this paper, we try to prove the absence of the ghosts in case of the general nonlinear massive gravity action in Stückelberg formalism. We argue that in order to find the explicit form of the Hamiltonian it is natural to start with the general nonlinear massive gravity action [S. F. Hassan and R. A. Rosen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 041101 (2012), arXiv:1106.3344 [hep-th]]. We perform the complete Hamiltonian analysis of the Stückelberg form of the minimal the nonlinear gravity action in this formulation and show that the constraint structure is so rich that it is possible to eliminate nonphysical modes. Then, we extend this analysis to the case of the general nonlinear massive gravity action. We find the corresponding Hamiltonian and collection of the primary constraints. Unfortunately we are not able to finish the complete analysis of the stability of all constraints due to the complex form of one primary constraint so that we are not able to determine the conditions under which given constraint is preserved during the time evolution of the system.


1996 ◽  
Vol 365 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 219-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Engels ◽  
S. Mashkevich ◽  
T. Scheideler ◽  
G. Zinovjev

2007 ◽  
Vol 04 (08) ◽  
pp. 1239-1257 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARLOS CASTRO

A novel Chern–Simons E8 gauge theory of gravity in D = 15 based on an octicE8 invariant expression in D = 16 (recently constructed by Cederwall and Palmkvist) is developed. A grand unification model of gravity with the other forces is very plausible within the framework of a supersymmetric extension (to incorporate spacetime fermions) of this Chern–Simons E8 gauge theory. We review the construction showing why the ordinary 11D Chern–Simons gravity theory (based on the Anti de Sitter group) can be embedded into a Clifford-algebra valued gauge theory and that an E8 Yang–Mills field theory is a small sector of a Clifford (16) algebra gauge theory. An E8 gauge bundle formulation was instrumental in understanding the topological part of the 11-dim M-theory partition function. The nature of this 11-dim E8 gauge theory remains unknown. We hope that the Chern–Simons E8 gauge theory of gravity in D = 15 advanced in this work may shed some light into solving this problem after a dimensional reduction.


2012 ◽  
Vol 07 ◽  
pp. 158-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES M. NESTER ◽  
CHIH-HUNG WANG

Many alternative gravity theories use an independent connection which leads to torsion in addition to curvature. Some have argued that there is no physical need to use such connections, that one can always use the Levi-Civita connection and just treat torsion as another tensor field. We explore this issue here in the context of the Poincaré Gauge theory of gravity, which is usually formulated in terms of an affine connection for a Riemann-Cartan geometry (torsion and curvature). We compare the equations obtained by taking as the independent dynamical variables: (i) the orthonormal coframe and the connection and (ii) the orthonormal coframe and the torsion (contortion), and we also consider the coupling to a source. From this analysis we conclude that, at least for this class of theories, torsion should not be considered as just another tensor field.


2015 ◽  
Vol 751 ◽  
pp. 131-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Cebecioğlu ◽  
S. Kibaroğlu

2017 ◽  
Vol 96 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Milutin Blagojević ◽  
Branislav Cvetković ◽  
Yuri N. Obukhov

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