Covariant constraints in ghost free massive gravity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2013-02-12 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We show that the reformulation of the de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley massive gravity theory using vielbeins leads to a very simple and covariant way to count constraints, and hence degrees of freedom. Our method singles out a subset of theories, in the de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley family, where an extra constraint, needed to eliminate the Boulware Deser ghost, is easily seen to appear. As a side result, we also introduce a new method, different from the Stuckelberg trick, to extract kinetic terms for the polarizations propagating in addition to those of the massless graviton.
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@article{arxiv.1207.6338,
title = {Covariant constraints in ghost free massive gravity},
author = {C. Deffayet and J. Mourad and G. Zahariade},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.6338},
year = {2013}
}
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25 pages. Published version