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Massive Unimodular Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-06-16 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

A ghost free massive deformation of unimodular gravity (UG), in the spirit of {\em mimetic massive gravity}, is shown to exist. This construction avoids the no-go theorem for a Fierz-Pauli type of mass term in UG by giving up on Lorentz invariance. In our framework, the mimetic degree of freedom vanishes on-shell.

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@article{arxiv.1806.10507,
  title  = {Massive Unimodular Gravity},
  author = {Enrique Alvarez and Jesus Anero and Guillermo Milans del Bosch and Raquel Santos-Garcia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.10507},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Several clarifications added. Published version. 11 pages

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