1208.1764 (Florian Kuhnel)

On Instability of Certain Bi-Metric and Massive-Gravity Theories    [PDF]

Florian Kuhnel

Stability about cosmological background solutions to the bi-metric Hassan-Rosen theory is studied. The results of this analysis are presented, and it is shown that a large class of cosmological backgrounds is classically unstable. This sets serious doubts on the physical viability of the Hassan-Rosen theory--and in turn also of the de Rham-Gadabaze-Tolley model, to which the mentioned theory is parent. A way to overcome this instability by means of curvature-type deformations is discussed.

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