ADM formulation and Hamiltonian analysis of f(Q) gravity

Kun Hu, Taishi Katsuragawa, and Taotao Qiu
Phys. Rev. D 106, 044025 – Published 10 August 2022

Abstract

f(Q) gravity is an extension of the symmetric teleparallel equivalent to general relativity. We demonstrate the Hamiltonian analysis of f(Q) gravity with fixing the coincident gauge condition. Using the standard Dirac-Bergmann algorithm, we show that f(Q) gravity has 8 physical degrees of freedom. This result reflects that the diffeomorphism symmetry of f(Q) gravity is completely broken due to the gauge fixing. Moreover, in terms of the perturbations, we discuss the possible mode decomposition of these degrees of freedom.

  • Received 5 May 2022
  • Revised 13 July 2022
  • Accepted 20 July 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.044025

© 2022 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

Authors & Affiliations

Kun Hu1,§, Taishi Katsuragawa1,†,‡, and Taotao Qiu2,*

  • 1Institute of Astrophysics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
  • 2School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

  • *Corresponding author. qiutt@hust.edu.cn
  • T. K. contributed equally to this work.
  • taishi@mail.ccnu.edu.cn
  • §hukun@mails.ccnu.edu.cn

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Vol. 106, Iss. 4 — 15 August 2022

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