Using Dirac’s prescription for constrained Hamiltonian systems, it will be shown that for the Stephenson–Kilmister–Yang theory of gravity the number of constraints is greater than the number of degrees of freedom when metric and connection are independent field variables.
Topics
Hamiltonian mechanics
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