Horndeski theories and beyond from higher dimensions

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABC272MaRDI QIDQ5162443zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Soumya Jana, Charles Dalang, Lucas Lombriser

Publication date 2 November 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06907

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyextra dimensionsHorndeski theoriesmodified gravityscalar-tensor theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Matrix models and tensor models for quantum field theory (81T32) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Gravitational waves (83C35) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The Einstein-Hilbert action with a cosmological constant is the most general local four-dimensional action leading to second-order derivative equations of motion that are symmetric and divergence free. In higher dimensions, additional terms can appear. We investigate a generalised metric decomposition involving a scalar degree of freedom to express the higher-dimensional action as an effective four-dimensional scalar-tensor theory. From the higher-dimensional Ricci scalar alone and a subclass of our metric ansatz, we recover the subset of Horndeski theories with luminal speed of gravitational waves. More generally, beyond-Horndeski terms appear. When including a Gauss-Bonnet scalar in the higher-dimensional action, we generate contributions to all cubic-order second-derivative terms present in the degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor theory as well as higher-derivative terms beyond that. We discuss this technique as a way to generate healthy four-dimensional gravity theories with an extra scalar degree of freedom and outline further generalisations of our method.

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