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Tricritical gravity waves in the four-dimensional generalized massive gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-05 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We construct a generalized massive gravity by combining quadratic curvature gravity with the Chern-Simons term in four dimensions. This may be a candidate for the parity-odd tricritical gravity theory. Considering the AdS4_4 vacuum solution, we derive the linearized Einstein equation, which is not similar to that of the three dimensional (3D) generalized massive gravity. When a perturbed metric tensor is chosen to be the Kerr-Schild form, the linearized equation reduces to a single massive scalar equation. At the tricritical points where two masses are equal to -1 and 2, we obtain a log-square wave solution to the massive scalar equation. This is compared to the 3D tricritical generalized massive gravity whose dual is a rank-3 logarithmic conformal field theory.

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@article{arxiv.1207.4542,
  title  = {Tricritical gravity waves in the four-dimensional generalized massive gravity},
  author = {Taeyoon Moon and Yun Soo Myung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.4542},
  year   = {2015}
}

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17 pages, 1 figure, version to appear in EPJC

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