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Massive gravity with nonminimal coupling

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 101, Issue 12, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.124021

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  1. JSPS [JP17K14276]
  2. European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [646702]
  3. UK STFC [ST/S000550/1]
  4. STFC [ST/S000550/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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We propose new massive gravity theories with 5 dynamical degrees of freedom. We evade uniqueness theorems regarding the form of the kinetic and potential terms by adopting the generalized massive gravity framework, where a global translation invariance is broken. By exploiting the rotation symmetry in the field space, we determine two novel classes of theories. The first one is an extension of generalized massive gravity with a nonminimal coupling. On the other hand, the second theory produces a mass term that is different from de Rliam, Gabadadze, Jolley construction and trivially has 5 degrees of freedom. Both theories allows for stable cosmological solutions without infinite strong coupling, which are free of ghost and gradient instabilities.

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