Consistent Bimetric Theory and its Application to Cosmology
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2014-05-13 v2
Abstract
Recently, the construction of ghost-free nonlinear massive spin-2 interactions solved a long outstanding problem in classical field theory. The consistent formulation requires a second rank-two tensor (or metric) and therefore has the form of a bimetric theory. Besides providing the solution to an old problem in field theory, ghost-free bimetric theory also has an interesting phenomenology: Its homogeneous and isotropic background solutions can reproduce the expansion history of the universe without any input of vacuum energy.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1405.1208,
title = {Consistent Bimetric Theory and its Application to Cosmology},
author = {Angnis Schmidt-May},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.1208},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
4 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the conference "Rencontres de Moriond", Cosmology Session, 2014; minor changes, references added