Eur. Phys. J. C (2014) 74: 2985
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2985-1

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Hamiltonian formalism of bimetric gravity in vierbein formulation

Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic

^* e-mail: klu@physics.muni.cz

Received: 26 May 2014
Accepted: 15 July 2014
Published online: 8 August 2014

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the Hamiltonian analysis of bimetric gravity in the vierbein formulation. We identify all constraints and determine their nature. We also show the existence of an additional constraint so that the scalar mode can be eliminated.