Higher derivative field theories: degeneracy conditions and classes

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2017)124zbMath1380.83200arXiv1703.01623OpenAlexW2594662128MaRDI QIDQ683244

Remko Klein, Diederik Roest, Marco Crisostomi

Publication date: 5 February 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.01623

zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravitycosmology of theories beyond the SMghost free higher derivative field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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