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Coupling between Galileon and massive gravity with composite metrics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-09-04 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We investigate the coupling between a Galileon scalar field and massive gravity through composite metrics. We derive the full set of equations of motion for a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background, and study linear perturbations around it. Generally, the nonminimal coupling with the composite metric will excite all 6 degrees of freedom of the spatial metric perturbations, one of which may correspond to the Boulware-Deser ghost.

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@article{arxiv.1412.8471,
  title  = {Coupling between Galileon and massive gravity with composite metrics},
  author = {Xian Gao and Daisuke Yoshida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.8471},
  year   = {2015}
}

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23 pages, no figure; v2 matches the PRD version

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