2026/03/27 by David Chester, Vipul Pandey
#gr-qc
We construct a gauge-covariant Hamiltonian formulation for the metric and symmetric teleparallel equivalents of general relativity. When treating torsion and nonmetricity as generalized velocities, the conjugate momenta are proportional to their respective superpotentials. The quadratic actions give regular Legendre maps on these field-strength fibers. For both theories, the second Hamilton equation reproduces the Einstein field equations. In the reduced ADM sector, the hypersurface generators obey the standard deformation algebra. The regular field-strength map changes the Legendre description but does not remove the gravitational constraints or alter the classical physics.