Primary Constraints of Newer General Relativity
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| author | Ferrara, Carmen Golovnev, Alexey Guzmán, María José |
| author_facet | Ferrara, Carmen Golovnev, Alexey Guzmán, María José |
| contents | We study the primary constraint structure of Newer General Relativity, a gravity theory based on a torsionless teleparallel geometry. The gravitational action is built from a scalar formed by quadratic combinations of the nonmetricity tensor, with arbitrary coefficients $c_i$ in the Lagrangian. We decompose the Lagrangian and compute the canonical momenta conjugate to the metric. We characterize the primary constraints arising from these momenta by identifying when the map between velocities and momenta becomes non-invertible, and organize the outcome through a fully nonlinear decomposition into scalar, vector and tensor sectors. Comparing with previous results in the literature, we recover five and three primary constraints associated with the tensor and vector sectors, respectively. We also identify a previously unreported degeneracy in the scalar sector, which yields either one or two scalar primary constraints depending on the conditions imposed on the parameters $c_i$. Finally, we obtain the primary constraints associated with the covariant formulation of symmetric teleparallel gravity. |
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| spellingShingle | Primary Constraints of Newer General Relativity Ferrara, Carmen Golovnev, Alexey Guzmán, María José General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory We study the primary constraint structure of Newer General Relativity, a gravity theory based on a torsionless teleparallel geometry. The gravitational action is built from a scalar formed by quadratic combinations of the nonmetricity tensor, with arbitrary coefficients $c_i$ in the Lagrangian. We decompose the Lagrangian and compute the canonical momenta conjugate to the metric. We characterize the primary constraints arising from these momenta by identifying when the map between velocities and momenta becomes non-invertible, and organize the outcome through a fully nonlinear decomposition into scalar, vector and tensor sectors. Comparing with previous results in the literature, we recover five and three primary constraints associated with the tensor and vector sectors, respectively. We also identify a previously unreported degeneracy in the scalar sector, which yields either one or two scalar primary constraints depending on the conditions imposed on the parameters $c_i$. Finally, we obtain the primary constraints associated with the covariant formulation of symmetric teleparallel gravity. |
| title | Primary Constraints of Newer General Relativity |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30221 |