Ghost-free Palatini derivative scalar-tensor theory: desingularization and the speed test

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2019.01.061MaRDI QIDQ1737271zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sophia Zhidkova, Dmitri Galtsov

Publication date 27 March 2019

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00492

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We disclose remarkable features of the scalar-tensor theory with the derivative coupling of the scalar field to the curvature in the Palatini formalism. Using the disformal transformations, we show that this theory is free from Otrogradski ghosts. For a special relation between two coupling constants, it is disformally dual to the Einstein gravity minimally coupled to the scalar, which opens the way to constructing several exact solutions. The disformal transformation degenerates at the boundary of the physical region, near which the properties of desingularization are revealed, illustrated by exact solutions: non-singular accelerating cosmology and a static spherically symmetric geon. We also construct the exact pp-waves of this theory propagating at the speed of light.

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