Gravity with antisymmetric components

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AB0FD6MaRDI QIDQ5152945zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Chrysoula Markou, Felix J. Rudolph, Angnis Schmidt-May

Publication date 28 September 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12419

zbMATH Keywords

classical field theorygravitational theoryvierbein formalismmassive spin-2

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Supergravity (83E50) Structure and representation of the Lorentz group (22E43)

Abstract: This work proposes a new gravitational theory formulated in terms of the vierbein field. The vierbein contains components which can be shifted by local Lorentz transformations and therefore do not show up in the spacetime metric. These components are given dynamics and become physical in our setup. They enter the massless theory in the form of an antisymmetric tensor field which makes the action reminiscent of the bosonic sector of supergravity. We then demonstrate that both the metric and the antisymmetric tensor can be made massive by adding a potential term for the vierbein. The form of this mass potential is inspired by ghost-free massive gravity. We confirm the absence of additional and potentially pathological degrees of freedom in an ADM analysis. However, at the linearized level around maximally symmetric solutions, the fluctuation of the antisymmetric tensor has a tachyonic mass pole.

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