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Some simple theories of gravity with propagating nonmetricity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-04-08 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate symmetric Metric-Affine Theories of Gravity with a Lagrangian containing all operators of dimension up to four that are relevant to free propagation in flat space. Complementing recent work in the antisymmetric case, we derive the conditions for the existence of a single massive particle with good properties, in addition to the graviton.

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@article{arxiv.2401.10097,
  title  = {Some simple theories of gravity with propagating nonmetricity},
  author = {Yusuke Mikura and Roberto Percacci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.10097},
  year   = {2025}
}

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20 pages