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Hamiltonian analysis of the BFCG formulation of General Relativity

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arxiv 1807.06354 v2 pith:FEUVXSEN submitted 2018-07-17 gr-qc hep-th

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We perform the complete Hamiltonian analysis of the BFCG action for General Relativity. We determine all the constraints of the theory and classify them into the first-class and the second-class constraints. We also show how the canonical formulation of BFCG General Relativity reduces to the Einstein-Cartan and triad canonical formulations. The reduced phase space analysis also gives a 2-connection which is suitable for the construction of a spin-foam basis which will be a categorical generalization of the spin-network basis from Loop Quantum Gravity.

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