Particle content of quadratic and f (R-mu nu sigma rho) theories in (A)dS

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2016-05-17
We perform a complete decoupling of the degrees of freedom of quadratic gravity and the generic f(R-mu nu sigma rho) theory about any one of their possible vacua, i.e. maximally symmetric solutions, and find the masses of the spin-2 and spin-0 modes in explicit forms.
PHYSICAL REVIEW D

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B. Tekin, “Particle content of quadratic and f (R-mu nu sigma rho) theories in (A)dS,” PHYSICAL REVIEW D, pp. 0–0, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/49086.