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Polycritical Gravities

Teake Nutma*

  • Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert Einstein Institut), Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Golm, Germany

  • *teake.nutma@aei.mpg.de
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Phys. Rev. D 85, 124040 – Published 19 June, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.124040

Abstract

We present higher-derivative gravities that propagate an arbitrary number of gravitons of different mass on (anti-)de Sitter backgrounds. These theories have multiple critical points, at which the masses degenerate and the graviton energies are non-negative. For six derivatives and higher there are critical points with positive energy.

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Phys. Rev. D 85, 124040– Published 19 June, 2012
  • Received 10 April 2012

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