Building cubic gravity with healthy and viable scalar and tensor perturbations

Abstract We investigate sufficient conditions under which cubic gravity is healthy and viable at the perturbation level. We perform a detailed analysis of the scalar and tensor perturbations. We impose the requirement that the two scalar potentials, whose ratio is the post-Newtonian parameter $$\gam...

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Main Authors: Petros Asimakis, Spyros Basilakos, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2024-02-01
Series:European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12554-7