Jordan and Einstein frames from the perspective of ω=3/2 Hamiltonian Brans-Dicke theory

Matteo Galaverni and Gabriele Gionti S. J.
Phys. Rev. D 105, 084008 – Published 8 April 2022

Abstract

We carefully perform a Hamiltonian Dirac’s constraint analysis of the ω=32 Brans-Dicke theory with the Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term. The Poisson brackets are computed via functional derivatives. After a brief summary of the results for the ω32 case [G. Gionti S. J., Canonical analysis of Brans-Dicke theory addresses Hamiltonian inequivalence between the Jordan and Einstein frames, Phys. Rev. D 103, 024022 (2021)] we derive all Hamiltonian Dirac’s constraints and constraint algebra in both the Jordan and the Einstein frames. Confronting and contrasting Dirac’s constraint algebra in both frames, it is shown that they are not equivalent. This highlights that the transformations from the Jordan to the Einstein frames are not Hamiltonian canonical transformations.

  • Received 11 November 2021
  • Accepted 1 March 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.084008

© 2022 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

Authors & Affiliations

Matteo Galaverni*

  • Specola Vaticana (Vatican Observatory), V-00120 Vatican City, Vatican City State, and INAF/OAS Bologna, via Gobetti 101, I-40129 Bologna, Italy

Gabriele Gionti S. J.

  • Specola Vaticana (Vatican Observatory), V-00120 Vatican City, Vatican City State, Vatican Observatory Research Group, Steward Observatory, The University Of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA and INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Via E. Fermi 40, I-00044 Frascati, Italy

  • *matteo.galaverni@gmail.com
  • Corresponding author. ggionti@specola.va

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Vol. 105, Iss. 8 — 15 April 2022

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