Tuesday, June 19, 2012

1206.3814 (Valentina Baccetti et al.)

Null Energy Condition violations in bimetric gravity    [PDF]

Valentina Baccetti, Prado Martin-Moruno, Matt Visser
We consider the effective stress-energy tensors for the foreground and background sectors in ghost-free bimetric gravity. By considering the symmetries of the theory, we show that the foreground and background null energy conditions (NECs) are strongly anti-correlated. In particular, the NECs can only be simultaneously fulfilled when they saturate, corresponding to foreground and background cosmological constants. In all other situations, either the foreground or the background is subject to a NEC-violating contribution to the total stress-energy.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3814

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