Canonical Formulation of Embedding Gravity in a Form of General Relativity with Dark Matter

Abstract

We study embedding gravity, a modified theory of gravity in which our space-time is assumed to be a four-dimensional surface in flat ten-dimensional space. Based on a simple geometric idea, this theory can be reformulated as general relativity with additional degrees of freedom and a contribution to action which can be interpreted as describing dark matter. We study the canonical formalism for such a formulation of embedding gravity. After solving simple constraints, the Hamiltonian is reduced to a linear combination of four first-class constraints with Lagrange multipliers. There still remain six pairs of second-class constraints. Possible ways of taking these constraints into account are discussed. We show that one way of solving the constraints leads to a canonical system going into the previously known canonical formulation of the complete embedding theory with an implicitly defined constraint.