A Trouble with Hořava-Lifshitz Gravity

May, 2009
11 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 08 (2009) 015
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CAS-KITPC-ITP-112

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We study the structure of the phase space in Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz theory. With the constraints derived from the action, the phase space is described by five fields, thus there is a lack of canonical structure. The Poisson brackets of the Hamiltonian density do not form a closed structure, resulting in many new constraints. Taking these new constraints into account, it appears that there is no degree of freedom left, or the phase space is reduced to one with an odd number of fields.
  • phase space: reduced
  • gravitation: model
  • Hamiltonian formalism
  • Poisson bracket
  • gravitation: Horava-Lifshitz
  • constraint: algebra
  • general relativity
  • prepotential