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超越Lovelock引力:高阶导数度规理论

Beyond Lovelock gravity: Higher derivative metric theories

Marco Crisostomi, Karim Noui, Christos Charmousis, David Langlois

摘要:

我们考虑描述四维度量的动力学的理论,其拉格朗日量是同态不变的,最多依赖于度量的二阶导数。强加退化条件,我们发现一组拉格朗日,除了形式的爱因斯坦-希尔伯特之一,是平凡的或包含两个以上的自由度。在部分退化的理论,我们恢复陈-西蒙斯引力,赋予约束,其结构表明存在的不稳定性。然后,我们通过引入新的“手征标量张量理论”,扩大了宇称破缺引力理论的范畴。虽然它们都引起了与陈-西蒙斯引力相同的关注,但它们仍然可以作为低能有效场论,或者通过将它们限制在幺正规范(其中标量场是均匀的),作为具有宇称破坏扇区的洛伦兹破缺理论。

英文摘要:

We consider theories describing the dynamics of a four-dimensional metric, whose Lagrangian is diffeomorphism invariant and depends at most on second derivatives of the metric. Imposing degeneracy conditions we find a set of Lagrangians that, apart form the Einstein-Hilbert one, are either trivial or contain more than two degrees of freedom. Among the partially degenerate theories, we recover Chern-Simons gravity, endowed with constraints whose structure suggests the presence of instabilities. Then, we enlarge the class of parity violating theories of gravity by introducing new "chiral scalar-tensor theories". Although they all raise the same concern as Chern-Simons gravity, they can nevertheless make sense as low energy effective field theories or, by restricting them to the unitary gauge (where the scalar field is uniform), as Lorentz breaking theories with a parity violating sector.

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