Inevitable ghost and the degrees of freedom in f(R, G) Gravity

DOI10.1143/PTP.124.503zbMATH Open1205.83056arXiv1006.4399OpenAlexW3099247010MaRDI QIDQ3064754FDOQ3064754

Authors: Antonio De Felice, Takahiro Tanaka 

Publication date: 23 December 2010

Published in: Progress of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The study of linear perturbation theory for general functions of the Ricci and Gauss-Bonnet scalars is done over an empty anisotropic universe, i.e. the Kasner-type background, in order to show that an anisotropic background in general has ghost degrees of freedom, which are absent on Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) backgrounds. The study of the scalar perturbation reveals that on this background the number of independent propagating degrees of freedom is four and reduces to three on FLRW backgrounds, as one mode becomes highly massive to decouple from the physical spectrum. When this mode remains physical, there is inevitably a ghost mode.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4399

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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