Stability of non-degenerate Ricci-type Palatini theories
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| author | Annala, Jaakko Rasanen, Syksy |
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| contents | We study the stability of theories where the gravitational action has arbitrary algebraic dependence on the three first traces of the Riemann tensor: the Ricci tensor, the co-Ricci tensor, and the homothetic curvature tensor. We collectively call them Ricci-type tensors. We allow arbitrary coupling to matter. We consider the case when the connection is unconstrained, and the cases when either torsion or non-metricity is assumed to vanish. We find which combinations of Ricci-type tensors lead to new degrees of freedom around Minkowski and FLRW space, and when there are ghosts. None of the theories with new degrees of freedom are healthy, except for two previously known cases where there is a single new vector. We find that projective invariance is not a sufficient condition for a theory to be ghost-free. |
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| spellingShingle | Stability of non-degenerate Ricci-type Palatini theories Annala, Jaakko Rasanen, Syksy General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics We study the stability of theories where the gravitational action has arbitrary algebraic dependence on the three first traces of the Riemann tensor: the Ricci tensor, the co-Ricci tensor, and the homothetic curvature tensor. We collectively call them Ricci-type tensors. We allow arbitrary coupling to matter. We consider the case when the connection is unconstrained, and the cases when either torsion or non-metricity is assumed to vanish. We find which combinations of Ricci-type tensors lead to new degrees of freedom around Minkowski and FLRW space, and when there are ghosts. None of the theories with new degrees of freedom are healthy, except for two previously known cases where there is a single new vector. We find that projective invariance is not a sufficient condition for a theory to be ghost-free. |
| title | Stability of non-degenerate Ricci-type Palatini theories |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09820 |