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Bimetric gravity, is a theory of gravity that posits the existence of two interacting and dynamical metric tensors. The spectrum of bimetric gravity consists of a massless and a massive spin-2 particle. The form of the interactions between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-23 Ioannis D. Gialamas , Kyriakos Tamvakis

We construct consistent theories of multiple interacting spin-2 fields in arbitrary spacetime dimensions using a vielbein formulation. We show that these theories have the additional primary constraints needed to eliminate potential ghosts,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-19 Kurt Hinterbichler , Rachel A. Rosen

We investigate, in any spacetime dimension >=3, the problem of consistent couplings for a finite collection of massless, spin-2 fields described, in the free limit, by a sum of Pauli-Fierz actions. We show that there is no consistent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Nicolas Boulanger , Thibault Damour , Leonardo Gualtieri , Marc Henneaux

We study the theory and phenomenology of massive spin-2 fields during the inflation with nonzero background chemical potential, and extend the cosmological collider physics to tensor modes. We identify a unique dimension-5 and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-23 Xi Tong , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

Massive spin-2 fields in addition to the standard massless graviton arise naturally in extensions of General Relativity, such as massive bigravity or models with extra dimensions. This work explores the observational signatures of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-22 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Álvaro Cendal , Hector Villarrubia-Rojo

Theories of massive gravity inevitably include an auxiliary reference metric. Generically, they also contain an inconsistency known as the Boulware-Deser ghost. Recently, a family of non-linear massive gravity actions, formulated with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 S. F. Hassan , Rachel A. Rosen , Angnis Schmidt-May

In this paper, we continue our investigation of gravitational interactions for massive higher spins extending our previous work on massive spin 3/2 and spin 2 to massive spin 5/2, including partially massless and massless limits. We use the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-17 Yu. M. Zinoviev

In this paper we use a constructive approach based on gauge invariant description of massive high spin particles for investigation of possible interactions of massive spin 2 particle. We work with general case of massive spin 2 particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yu. M. Zinoviev

We consider a particular set of ghost-free interactions for three spin-2 fields in which we freeze out the dynamics of the metric tensor that couples to the matter sector. Integrating out the non-dynamical degrees of freedom in vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Marvin Lüben , Angnis Schmidt-May

A ghost-free theory of gravity with two dynamical metrics both coupled to matter is shown to be consistent and viable. Its cosmological implications are studied, and the models, in particular in the context of partially massless gravity,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-25 Yashar Akrami , Tomi S. Koivisto , David F. Mota , Marit Sandstad

The ghost-free theory of massive gravity with two dynamical metrics has been shown to produce viable cosmological expansion, where the late-time acceleration of the Universe is due to the finite range of the gravitational interaction rather…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 Adam R. Solomon , Yashar Akrami , Tomi S. Koivisto

We propose a new ghost-free model describing massive spin two field. This model consists of a kinetic term and interaction terms without derivative. We report on the properties of this model, especially we consider what could happen when…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Shin'ichi Nojiri

We use generalized elastic positivity bounds to constrain the parameter space of multi-field spin-2 effective field theories. These generalized bounds involve inelastic scattering amplitudes between particles with different masses, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Zi-Yue Wang , Cen Zhang , Shuang-Yong Zhou

A twenty--dimensional space of charged solutions of spin--2 equations is proposed. The relation with extended (via dilatation) Poincar\'e group is analyzed. Locally, each solution of the theory may be described in terms of a potential,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 Jacek Jezierski

In this paper we study the ghost-free bimetric action extended by a recently proposed coupling to matter through a composite metric. The equations of motion for this theory are derived using a method which avoids varying the square-root…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-17 Angnis Schmidt-May

Linear perturbations on Minkowski space are used to probe numerically the remote region of an asymptotically flat space-time close to spatial infinity. The study is undertaken within the framework of Friedrich's conformal field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-04 Florian Beyer , Georgios Doulis , Jörg Frauendiener , Ben Whale

In this paper, we continue our investigation of gravitational interactions for massive higher spins, extending our recent work on massive spin 5/2 to massive spin 3, including its massless and partially massless limits. To construct the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-31 Yu. M. Zinoviev

Inspired by the translational gauge structure of teleparallel gravity, the theory for a fundamental massless spin-2 field is constructed. Accordingly, instead of being represented by a symmetric second-rank tensor, the fundamental spin-2…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-28 H. I. Arcos , Tiago Gribl Lucas , J. G. Pereira

In this paper we establish the correspondence between ghost-free bimetric theory and a class of higher derivative gravity actions, including conformal gravity and New Massive Gravity. We also characterize the relation between the respective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-24 S. F. Hassan , Angnis Schmidt-May , Mikael von Strauss

The bimetric theory of gravity is an extension of general relativity that describes a massive spin-$2$ particle in addition to the standard massless graviton. The theory is based on two dynamical metric tensors with their interactions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-23 Ioannis D. Gialamas , Kyriakos Tamvakis