2016
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/04/051
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A general mass term for bigravity

Abstract: We introduce a new formalism to study perturbations of Hassan-Rosen bigravity theory, around general backgrounds for the two dynamical metrics. In particular, we derive the general expression for the mass term of the perturbations and we explicitly compute it for cosmological settings. We study tensor perturbations in a specific branch of bigravity using this formalism. We show that the tensor sector is affected by a late-time instability, which sets in when the mass matrix is no longer positive definite.

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“…[35] that the relative factor between the kinetic tensor modes for g µν and f µν is the lapse function of f µν and, therefore, a negative lapse is responsible for a ghost in the helicity-2 sector. We conclude that the absence of the Higuchi ghost automatically implies the absence of a ghost in the helicity-2 sector.…”
Section: Tensor Ghostsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…[35] that the relative factor between the kinetic tensor modes for g µν and f µν is the lapse function of f µν and, therefore, a negative lapse is responsible for a ghost in the helicity-2 sector. We conclude that the absence of the Higuchi ghost automatically implies the absence of a ghost in the helicity-2 sector.…”
Section: Tensor Ghostsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Note that even though IBB seems to be well behaved at the linear level, the appearance of the Higuchi ghost may only be visible at higher orders or maybe even only in the full solution [34]. Furthermore, it was found that cosmological solutions on this infinite branch suffer from a ghost in the helicity-2 sector at early times [35].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A second dynamical metric opens a whole new window for the above mentioned conceptual issues and actually does exhibit a stable flat Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) solution [56]. This has also been an active area of research lately, but unfortunately it is seems hard to obtain models where all perturbations are bounded on the backgrounds of interest [57][58][59].…”
Section: Conceptual Shortcomings Of the Drgt Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some works have some overlap with our own. Comelli et al [71], Koennig et al [80], Lagos et al [40], Cusin et al [78] and Amendola et al [41] employed linear perturbation theory to understand what pathologies may arise in each sector of bigravity. These works vary depending on the branch and α n region they focus on but overall they span several branches of solutions including the one employed here.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Indeed, no matter how efficient the screening of scalars and vectors, the two copies of the tensors at hand can be safely considered unscreened. The act of normalizing things "as usual" for inflation and considering the tensors diagonalized from the onset of the LEL may be insensitive to part of the dynamics which goes beyond the LEL regime 7 , as is exemplified by the work in [40,78], which respectively focused on different branches of solutions.…”
Section: Primordial Gravitational Wavesmentioning
confidence: 99%