Cutoff for extensions of massive gravity and bi-gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/7/075004zbMATH Open1338.83150arXiv1506.00666OpenAlexW1752289454MaRDI QIDQ2806310FDOQ2806310

Authors: Andrew Matas 

Publication date: 17 May 2016

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently there has been interest in extending ghost-free massive gravity, bi-gravity, and multi-gravity by including non-standard kinetic terms and matter couplings. We first review recent proposals for this class of extensions, emphasizing how modifications of the kinetic and potential structure of the graviton and modifications of the coupling to matter are related. We then generalize existing no-go arguments in the metric language to the vielbein language in second-order form. We give an ADM argument to show that the most promising extensions to the kinetic term and matter coupling contain a Boulware-Deser ghost. However, as recently emphasized, we may still be able to view these extensions as effective field theories below some cutoff scale. To address this possibility, we show that there is a decoupling limit where a ghost appears for a wide class of matter couplings and kinetic terms. In particular, we show that there is a decoupling limit where the linear effective vielbein matter coupling contains a ghost. Using the insight we gain from this decoupling limit analysis, we place an upper bound on the cutoff for the linear effective vielbein coupling. This result can be generalized to new kinetic interactions in the vielbein language in second-order form. Combined with recent results, this provides a strong uniqueness argument on the form of ghost-free massive gravity, bi-gravity, and multi-gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00666

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zbMATH Keywords

modified gravityeffective field theorymassive gravityBoulware-Deser ghostbi-gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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