Hamiltonian Formulation of Bianchi Cosmological Models in Quadratic Theories of Gravity

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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Latex, 29 pages, accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity

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10.1088/0264-9381/12/12/023

We use Boulware's Hamiltonian formalism of quadratic gravity theories in order to analyze the classical behaviour of Bianchi cosmological models for a Lagrangian density containing quadratic terms in the curvature. For this purpose we define a canonical transformation which leads to a clear distinction between two main variants of the quadratic theory, namely the R-squared or conformal Lagrangian densities. In this paper we restrict the study to the first variant. For Bianchi type I and IX models we give the explicit forms of the super-Hamiltonian constraint, of the ADM Hamiltonian density and of the corresponding canonical equations. In the case of a pure R-squared theory we solve these equations analytically for Bianchi I model. For Bianchi type IX model, we reduce the first-order equations of the Hamiltonian system to three coupled second-order equations for the true physical degrees of freedom. This discussion is extended to isotropic FLRW models.

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