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Higher dimensional nonlinear massive gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-05-04 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Inspired by a recent ghost-free nonlinear massive gravity in four-dimensional spacetime, we study its higher dimensional scenarios. As a result, we are able to show the constant-like behavior of massive graviton terms for some well-known metrics such as the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker, Bianchi type I, and Schwarzschild-Tangherlini-(A)dS metrics in a specific five-dimensional nonlinear massive gravity under an assumption that its fiducial metrics are compatible with physical ones. In addition, some simple cosmological solutions of the five-dimensional massive gravity will be figured out consistently.

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@article{arxiv.1602.05672,
  title  = {Higher dimensional nonlinear massive gravity},
  author = {Tuan Q. Do},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.05672},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

20 pages, no figure. Some discussions on the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini-(A)dS black holes and references are added. Comments are welcome

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