29 June 2026 to 3 July 2026
Physicum, University of Tartu
Europe/Tallinn timezone

Primary constraints of newer general relativity

Not scheduled
20m
A106 (Physicum, University of Tartu)

A106

Physicum, University of Tartu

W. Ostwaldi 1, Tartu
Oral talk

Speaker

Carmen Ferrara (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)

Description

We study the primary constraint structure of newer general relativity, a gravity theory based on a torsionless teleparallel geometry. The gravitational action consists of a scalar built from quadratic combinations of the nonmetricity tensor with arbitrary coefficients in the Lagrangian. We perform a 3+1 decomposition of the Lagrangian and compute the canonical momenta associated with the metric. We characterize the primary constraints coming from the metric conjugate momenta by analyzing when the map between momenta and velocities becomes non-invertible, and organize the outcome through a fully nonlinear decomposition into scalar, vector and tensor sectors. We compare our results with others found in the literature.

Authors

Prof. Alexey Golovnev (Centre for Theoretical Physics, the British University in Egypt) Carmen Ferrara (Scuola Superiore Meridionale) Prof. Maria-Josè Guzman ({Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics, University of Tartu)

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