Abstract
The peculiarities of doing a canonical analysis of the first-order formulation of the Einstein–Hilbert action in terms of either the metric tensor gαβ or the metric density [Formula: see text] along with the affine connection are discussed. It is shown that the difference between using gαβ as opposed to hαβ appears only in two spacetime dimensions. Despite there being a different number of constraints in these two approaches, both formulations result in there being a local Poisson brackets algebra of constraints with field independent structure constants, closed off-shell generators of gauge transformations and off-shell invariance of the action. The formulation in terms of the metric tensor is analyzed in detail and compared with earlier results obtained using the metric density. The gauge transformations, obtained from the full set of first-class constraints, are different from a diffeomorphism transformation in both cases.
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