Bi-gravity with a single graviton

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2019)070zbMATH Open1421.83076arXiv1904.11906OpenAlexW2941860603WikidataQ127369470 ScholiaQ127369470MaRDI QIDQ2273422FDOQ2273422

Authors: Simone Speziale, Sergei Alexandrov 

Publication date: 23 September 2019

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

Abstract: We analyze a bi-gravity model based on the first order formalism, having as fundamental variables two tetrads but only one Lorentz connection. We show that on a large class of backgrounds its linearization agrees with general relativity. At the non-linear level, additional degrees of freedom appear, and we reveal the mechanism hiding them around the special backgrounds. We further argue that they do not contain a massive graviton, nor the Boulware-Deser ghost. The model thus propagates only one graviton, whereas the nature of the additional degrees of freedom remains to be investigated. We also present a foliation-preserving deformation of the model, which keeps all symmetries except time diffeomorphisms and has three degrees of freedom.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11906

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zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravitycosmology of theories beyond the SM

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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