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arxiv: 1204.1027 · v3 · pith:7YGCO276new · submitted 2012-04-04 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc· hep-ph

Degrees of Freedom in Massive Gravity

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keywords degreesfreedommassivepropagatinganalyzedbackgroundcastcondition
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We study in a systematic way a generic nonderivative (massive) deformation of general relativity using the Hamiltonian formalism. The number of propagating degrees of freedom is analyzed in a nonperturbative and background independent way. We show that the condition of having only five propagating degrees of freedom can be cast in a set of differential equations for the deforming potential. Though the conditions are rather restrictive, many solutions can be found.

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