All unitary cubic curvature gravities in D dimensions

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2011-10-07

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Sisman, Tahsin Cagri
Gullu, Ibrahim
Tekin, Bayram

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We construct all the unitary cubic curvature gravity theories built on the contractions of the Riemann tensor in D-dimensional (anti)-de Sitter spacetimes. Our construction is based on finding the equivalent quadratic action for the general cubic curvature theory and imposing ghost and tachyon freedom, which greatly simplifies the highly complicated problem of finding the propagator of cubic curvature theories in constant curvature backgrounds. To carry out the procedure we have also classified all the unitary quadratic models. We use our general results to study the recently found cubic curvature theories using different techniques and the string generated cubic curvature gravity model. We also study the scattering in critical gravity and give its cubic curvature extensions.

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Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35560

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CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

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https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/28/19/195004

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T. C. Sisman, I. Gullu, and B. Tekin, “All unitary cubic curvature gravities in D dimensions,” CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY, pp. 0–0, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35560.