Gauge Fixing in Higher Derivative Gravity

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dc.creatorBartoli, A.
dc.creatorJulve, J.
dc.creatorSanchez, E. J.
dc.date1998-11-12
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:01:26Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:01:26Z
dc.descriptionLinearized four-derivative gravity with a general gauge fixing term is considered. By a Legendre transform and a suitable diagonalization procedure it is cast into a second-order equivalent form where the nature of the physical degrees of freedom, the gauge ghosts, the Weyl ghosts, and the intriguing "third ghosts", characteristic to higher-derivative theories, is made explicit. The symmetries of the theory and the structure of the compensating Faddeev-Popov ghost sector exhibit non-trivial peculiarities.
dc.description21 pages, LaTeX
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9811041
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9811041
dc.identifierClass.Quant.Grav.16:2283-2298,1999
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0264-9381/16/7/310
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/207093
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleGauge Fixing in Higher Derivative Gravity
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