Canonical Analysis and Stability of Lanczos-Lovelock Gravity

Details Canonical Analysis and Stability of Lanczos-Lovelock Gravity Canonical Analysis and Stability of Lanczos-Lovelock Gravity

2011-10-27

arxiv.org/abs/1110.6085v2

Class. Quantum Grav. 29 (2012) 072001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

amplified, published version; section added on positive energy of R+LL

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/29/7/072001

We perform a space-time analysis of the D>4 quadratic curvature Lanczos-Lovelock (LL) model, exhibiting its dependence on intrinsic/extrinsic curvatures, lapse and shifts. As expected from general covariance, the field equations include D constraints, of zeroth and first time derivative order. In the "linearized" - here necessarily cubic - limit, we give an explicit formulation in terms of the usual ADM metric decomposition, incidentally showing that time derivatives act only on its transverse-traceless spatial components. Unsurprisingly, pure LL has no Hamiltonian formulation, nor are even its - quadratic - weak field constraints easily soluble. Separately, we point out that the extended, more physical R+LL, model is stable - its energy is positive - due to its supersymmetric origin and ghost-freedom.

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