Born-Infeld gravity with a unique vacuum and a massless graviton

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2015-11-04

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Gullu, Ibrahim
Sisman, Tahsin Cagri
Tekin, Bayram

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We construct an n-dimensional Born-Infeld-type gravity theory that has the same properties as Einstein's gravity in terms of the vacuum and particle content: Namely, the theory has a unique viable vacuum (maximally symmetric solution) and a single massless unitary spin-2 graviton about this vacuum. The Born-Infeld gravity, in some sense, is the most natural, minimal generalization of Einstein's gravity with a better UV behavior and hence is a potentially less singular theory at small distances. The Gauss-Bonnet combination plays a nontrivial role in the construction of the theory. As an extreme example, we consider the infinite-dimensional limit where an interesting exponential gravity arises.

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Field-Theory

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47926

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