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New ghost-free gravity Lagrangians with propagating torsion
Abstract
A new class of ${R}^{2}$ type of actions without ghosts and tachyons is found in which both the vierbein field ${{e}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}}^{a}$ and the spin connection ${{\ensuremath{\omega}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}}^{\mathrm{ab}}$ are independent and propagating fields. A complete set of spin-projection operators for ${{e}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}}^{a}$ and ${{\ensuremath{\omega}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}}^{\mathrm{ab}}$ is constructed. The particle content of these actions and other ${R}^{2}$ theories in the literature is given. The relation of this work to the interesting work of Neville is discussed.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sezgin, E., & van Nieuwenhuizen, P.
- Venue
- Physical Review D
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1980-06-15
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 3269-3280
- ISSN
- 0556-2821 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2050322919
- Cited by
- 296
- References
- 14
- FWCI
- 16.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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