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The particle spectrum of parity-violating Poincare gravitational theory

Karananas, Georgios K.  
2015
Classical And Quantum Gravity

In this paper we investigate the physical spectrum of the gravitational theory based on the Poincare group with terms that are at most quadratic in tetrad and spin connection, allowing for the presence of parity-even as well as parity-odd invariants. We determine restrictions on the parameters of the action so that all degrees of freedom propagate and are neither ghosts nor tachyons. We show that the addition of parity non-conserving invariants extends the healthy parameter space of the theory. To accomplish our goal, we apply the weak field approximation around flat spacetime and in order to facilitate the analysis, we separate the bilinear action for the excitations into completely independent spin sectors. For this purpose, we employ the spin-projection operator formalism and extend the original basis built previously, to be able to handle the parity-odd pieces.

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research article
DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/32/5/055012
Web of Science ID

WOS:000350637200012

Author(s)
Karananas, Georgios K.  
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Iop Publishing Ltd

Published in
Classical And Quantum Gravity
Volume

32

Issue

5

Article Number

055012

Subjects

Poincare

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gravity

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parity

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REVIEWED

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