Degrees of freedom of $f(T)$ gravity

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2011-05-30

arxiv.org/abs/1105.5934v4

JHEP 1107:108,2011

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

18 pages, some references added, minor revision to appear in JHEP

Scientific paper

10.1007/JHEP07(2011)108

We investigate the Hamiltonian formulation of $f(T)$ gravity and find that there are five degrees of freedom. The six first class constraints corresponding to the local Lorentz transformation in Teleparallel gravity become second class constraints in $f(T)$ gravity, which leads to the appearance of three extra degrees of freedom and the violation of the local Lorentz invariance in $f(T)$ gravity. In general, there are $D-1$ extra degrees of freedom for $f(T)$ gravity in $D$ dimensions, and this implies that the extra degrees of freedom correspond to one massive vector field or one massless vector field with one scalar field.

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