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Hamiltonian cosmology in bigravity and massive gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-12 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In the Hamiltonian language we provide a study of flat-space cosmology in bigravity and massive gravity constructed mostly with de Rham, Gabadadze, Tolley (dRGT) potential. It is demonstrated that the Hamiltonian methods are powerful not only in proving the absence of the Boulware-Deser ghost, but also in solving other problems. The purpose of this work is to give an introduction both to the Hamiltonian formalism and to the cosmology of bigravity. We sketch three roads to the Hamiltonian of bigravity with the dRGT potential: the metric, the tetrad and the minisuperspace approaches.

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@article{arxiv.1505.00840,
  title  = {Hamiltonian cosmology in bigravity and massive gravity},
  author = {Vladimir O. Soloviev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.00840},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

42 pages, no figures, some typos removed

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