On the ghost problem of conformal gravity

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2023)168MaRDI QIDQ6074207zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Anamaria Hell, Dieter Lüst, George Zoupanos

Publication date 12 October 2023

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/2306.13714

zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravityde Sitter spacescale and conformal symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

Abstract: We study the metric perturbations around the de Sitter and Minkowski backgrounds in Conformal Gravity. We confirm the presence of ghosts in both cases. In the de Sitter case, by applying the Maldacena boundary conditions - the Neumann boundary condition and the positive-frequency mode condition - to the metric, we show that one cannot recover a general solution for the perturbations. In turn, alongside the Neumann boundary condition, we derive an additional condition with which the perturbations of conformal gravity and dS perturbations of Einstein gravity with cosmological constant coincide. We further show that the Neumann boundary condition does not lead to a general solution in Minkowski space. Conversely, we derive the alternative boundary conditions, with which we attain an agreement between the perturbations of conformal and Einstein gravity in full generality, thus removing the ghost of conformal gravity.

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