Modified gravity without new degrees of freedom

dc.creatorFreidel, Laurent
dc.date2008-12-17
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:16:12Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:16:12Z
dc.descriptionWe show that the new type of "non-metric" gravity theories introduced independently by Bengtsson and Krasnov can in fact be reexpressed explicitely as a metrical theory coupled to an auxiliary field. We unravel why such theories possess only one propagating graviton by looking at the quadratic perturbation around a fixed solution. And we give a general construction principle with a new class of example of such modified gravity theories still possessing only two propagating degrees of freedom.
dc.description19 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0812.3200
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0812.3200
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/211727
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleModified gravity without new degrees of freedom
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