Gauge fixing in higher-derivative gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/7/310zbMATH Open0932.83037arXivgr-qc/9811041OpenAlexW3099582346MaRDI QIDQ4700002FDOQ4700002

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Publication date: 18 November 1999

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

Abstract: Linearized four-derivative gravity with a general gauge fixing term is considered. By a Legendre transform and a suitable diagonalization procedure it is cast into a second-order equivalent form where the nature of the physical degrees of freedom, the gauge ghosts, the Weyl ghosts, and the intriguing "third ghosts", characteristic to higher-derivative theories, is made explicit. The symmetries of the theory and the structure of the compensating Faddeev-Popov ghost sector exhibit non-trivial peculiarities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9811041

zbMATH Keywords

gauge fixingghostshigher-derivative gravitypoltergeist

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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