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Confirmation of the secondary constraint and absence of ghost in massive gravity and bimetric gravity
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics. Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics (OKC).
2012 (English)In: Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), ISSN 1126-6708, E-ISSN 1029-8479, no 4, article id 123Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In massive gravity and in bimetric theories of gravity, two constraints are needed to eliminate the two phase-space degrees of freedom of the Boulware-Deser ghost. For recently proposed non-linear theories, a Hamiltonian constraint has been shown to exist and an associated secondary constraint was argued to arise as well. In this paper we explicitly demonstrate the existence of the secondary constraint. Thus the Boulware-Deser ghost is completely absent from these non-linear massive gravity theories and from the corresponding bimetric theories. Equivalently, this proves the existence of classically ghost-free theories of massive spin-2 fields, in both fixed and dynamical gravitational backgrounds.

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2012. no 4, article id 123
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Classical Theories of Gravity, Space-Time Symmetries
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Subatomic Physics Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
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Theoretical Physics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-86400DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2012)123ISI: 000304148100049OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-86400DiVA, id: diva2:586893
Available from: 2013-01-13 Created: 2013-01-13 Last updated: 2022-02-24Bibliographically approved

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