Peculiarities of the Canonical Analysis of the First Order Form of the Einstein-Hilbert Action in Two Dimensions in Terms of the Metric Tensor or the Metric Density

Details Peculiarities of the Canonical Analysis of the First Order Form of the Einstein-Hilbert Action in Two Dimensions in Terms of the Metric Tensor or the Metric Density Peculiarities of the Canonical Analysis of the First Order Form of the Einstein-Hilbert Action in Two Dimensions in Terms of the Metric Tensor or the Metric Density

2005-03-29

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0503231v2

Mod.Phys.Lett. A20 (2005) 1961-1972

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

13 pages

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0217732305018219

The peculiarities of doing a canonical analysis of the first order formulation of the Einstein-Hilbert action in terms of either the metric tensor $g^{\alpha \beta}$ or the metric density $h^{\alpha \beta}= \sqrt{-g}g^{\alpha \beta}$ along with the affine connection are discussed. It is shown that the difference between using $g^{\alpha \beta}$ as opposed to $h^{\alpha \beta}$ appears only in two spacetime dimensions. Despite there being a different number of constraints in these two approaches, both formulations result in there being a local Poisson brackets algebra of constraints with field independent structure constants, closed off shell generators of gauge transformations and off shell invariance of the action. The formulation in terms of the metric tensor is analyzed in detail and compared with earlier results obtained using the metric density. The gauge transformations, obtained from the full set of first class constraints, are different from a diffeomorphism transformation in both cases.

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