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The coupling to matter in Massive, Bi- and Multi-Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-01-21 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In this paper we construct a family of ways in which matter can couple to one or more `metrics'/spin-2 fields in the vielbein formulation. We do so subject to requiring the weak equivalence principle and the absence of ghosts from pure spin-2 interactions generated by the matter action. Results are presented for Massive, Bi- and Multi-Gravity theories and we give explicit expressions for the effective matter metric in all of these cases.

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@article{arxiv.1408.5131,
  title  = {The coupling to matter in Massive, Bi- and Multi-Gravity},
  author = {Johannes Noller and Scott Melville},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.5131},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages

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