pith. sign in

Ghost-free Massive Gravity with a General Reference Metric

4 Pith papers cite this work. Polarity classification is still indexing.

4 Pith papers citing it
abstract

Theories of massive gravity inevitably include an auxiliary reference metric. Generically, they also contain an inconsistency known as the Boulware-Deser ghost. Recently, a family of non-linear massive gravity actions, formulated with a flat reference metric, were proposed and shown to be ghost free at the complete non-linear level. In this paper we consider these non-linear massive gravity actions but now formulated with a general reference metric. We extend the proof of the absence of the Boulware-Deser ghost to this case. The analysis is carried out in the ADM formalism at the complete non-linear level. We show that in these models there always exists a Hamiltonian constraint which, with an associated secondary constraint, eliminates the ghost. This result considerably extends the range of known consistent non-linear massive gravity theories. In addition, these theories can also be used to describe a massive spin-2 field in an arbitrary, fixed gravitational background. We also discuss the positivity of the Hamiltonian.

citation-role summary

background 1

citation-polarity summary

roles

background 1

polarities

background 1

representative citing papers

Bimetric interactions based on metric congruences

hep-th · 2019-06-27 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Bimetric interactions are defined via a congruence matrix, with the square root shown as the unique power series solution and algebraic equivalence to the unconstrained vielbein formulation.

Gravitational wave propagation in bigravity in the late universe

gr-qc · 2025-07-15 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Exact solutions and uniform approximations for GW modes in bigravity in de Sitter yield regime-dependent luminosity distances, a new bound from GW170817, and retained coherence between massless and massive signal components.

Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters

astro-ph.CO · 2018-07-17 · accept · novelty 5.0

Final Planck CMB data confirms the flat 6-parameter ΛCDM model with Ω_c h² = 0.120 ± 0.001, Ω_b h² = 0.0224 ± 0.0001, n_s = 0.965 ± 0.004, τ = 0.054 ± 0.007, H_0 = 67.4 ± 0.5 km/s/Mpc, and no strong evidence for extensions.

citing papers explorer

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

  • Bimetric interactions based on metric congruences hep-th · 2019-06-27 · unverdicted · none · ref 3 · internal anchor

    Bimetric interactions are defined via a congruence matrix, with the square root shown as the unique power series solution and algebraic equivalence to the unconstrained vielbein formulation.

  • Gravitational wave propagation in bigravity in the late universe gr-qc · 2025-07-15 · unverdicted · none · ref 8 · internal anchor

    Exact solutions and uniform approximations for GW modes in bigravity in de Sitter yield regime-dependent luminosity distances, a new bound from GW170817, and retained coherence between massless and massive signal components.

  • Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters astro-ph.CO · 2018-07-17 · accept · none · ref 162

    Final Planck CMB data confirms the flat 6-parameter ΛCDM model with Ω_c h² = 0.120 ± 0.001, Ω_b h² = 0.0224 ± 0.0001, n_s = 0.965 ± 0.004, τ = 0.054 ± 0.007, H_0 = 67.4 ± 0.5 km/s/Mpc, and no strong evidence for extensions.

  • Thermodynamics and phase transitions of charged-AdS black holes in dRGT massive gravity with nonlinear electrodynamics gr-qc · 2026-04-02 · unverdicted · none · ref 15

    Charged AdS black holes in dRGT massive gravity with exponential NED exhibit van der Waals-like first-order, second-order critical, and reentrant phase transitions between small and large black holes at fixed Lambda.