When is Multimetric Gravity Ghost-free?
When is Multimetric Gravity Ghost-free?
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Multimetric Gravity 什么时候不再有幽灵?
DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.86.084052
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
Jiro Soda
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作者:
Kouichi Nomura;Jiro Soda
We study ghosts in multimetric gravity by combining the minisuperspace and the Hamiltonian constraint analysis. We first revisit bimetric gravity and explain why it is ghost-free. Then, we apply our method to trimetric gravity and clarify when the model contains a ghost. More precisely, we prove trimetric gravity generically contains a ghost. However, if we cut the interaction of a pair of metrics, trimetric gravity becomes ghost-free. We further extend the Hamiltonian analysis to general multimetric gravity and calculate the number of ghosts in various models. Thus, we find multimetric gravity with loop type interactions never becomes ghost-free.