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Critical gravity with a scalar field in four dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-04 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider the critical gravity theory with a scalar field in four dimensions. We find that this theory has the solution corresponding to the de Sitter (dS), anti-de Sitter (AdS), and Minkowski background depending on whether the action includes the cosmological term or not. The Minkowski background is the solution which cannot be obtained in the model without a scalar field. At the critical point, we show that the Abbott-Deser (AD) mass of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS) black hole and the energy for the massless graviton vanish, whose situation is not changed from the model without a scalar field.

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@article{arxiv.1203.3301,
  title  = {Critical gravity with a scalar field in four dimensions},
  author = {Kyosuke Hirochi and Shin'ichi Nojiri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.3301},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages

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