Massive gravity acausality redux

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2013.09.001zbMATH Open1311.83042arXiv1306.5457OpenAlexW2096325538MaRDI QIDQ2345201FDOQ2345201

Authors: Keisuke Izumi, Yen Chin Ong, Stanley Deser, Andrew K. Waldron 

Publication date: 19 May 2015

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

Abstract: Massive gravity (mGR) is a 5(=2s+1) degree of freedom, finite range extension of GR. However, amongst other problems, it is plagued by superluminal propagation, first uncovered via a second order shock analysis. First order mGR shock structures have also been studied, but the existence of superluminal propagation in that context was left open. We present here a concordance of these methods, by an explicit (first order) characteristic matrix computation, which confirms mGR's superluminal propagation as well as acausality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5457

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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