Critical gravity from four dimensional scale invariant gravity

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2019)169MaRDI QIDQ2292564zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Yu Nakayama, A. Edery

Publication date 3 February 2020

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08778

zbMATH Keywords

black holesclassical theories of gravityglobal symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We show that a critical condition exists in four dimensional scale invariant gravity given by the pure quadratic action $$ where $C_{,,usigmaho}^{mu}$ is the Weyl tensor, $R$ is the Ricci scalar and $$ and $alpha$ are dimensionless parameters. The critical condition in a dS or AdS background is $$. This leads to critical gravity where the massive spin two physical ghost becomes a massless spin two graviton. In contrast to the original work on critical gravity, no Einstein gravity with a cosmological constant is added explicitly to the higher-derivative action. The critical condition is obtained in two independent ways. In the first case, we show the equivalence between the initial action and an action containing Einstein gravity, a cosmological constant, a massless scalar field plus Weyl squared gravity. The scale invariance is spontaneously broken. The linearized Einstein-Weyl equations about a dS or AdS background yield the critical condition $$. In the second case, we work directly with the original quadratic action. After a suitable field redefinition, where the metric perturbation is traceless and transverse, we obtain linearized equations about a dS or AdS background that yield the critical condition $$. As in the first case, we also obtain a propagating massless scalar field. Substituting $$ into the energy and entropy formula for the Schwarzschild and Kerr AdS or dS black hole in higher-derivative gravity yields zero, the same value obtained in the original work on critical gravity. We discuss the role of boundary conditions in relaxing the $$ condition.

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