Born-Infeld gravity with a massless graviton in four dimensions

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2015-02-03

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Guellue, Ibrahim
Sisman, Tahsin Cagri
Tekin, Bayram

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We construct Born-Infeld (BI) type gravity theories which describe tree-level unitary (nonghost and nontachyonic) massless spin-2 modes around their maximally symmetric vacua in four dimensions. Building unitary BI actions around flat vacuum is straightforward, but this is a complicated task around (anti)-de Sitter backgrounds. In this work, we solve the issue and give details of constructing perturbatively viable determinantal BI theories. It is interesting that the Gauss-Bonnet combination, which is a total derivative in four dimensions, plays an important role in the construction of viable BI theories.

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Fıeld-theory

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/39970

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D

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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.91.044007

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I. Guellue, T. C. Sisman, and B. Tekin, “Born-Infeld gravity with a massless graviton in four dimensions,” PHYSICAL REVIEW D, pp. 0–0, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/39970.