Generalized Galileons: All scalar models whose curved background extensions maintain second-order field equations and stress tensors

C. Deffayet, S. Deser, and G. Esposito-Farèse
Phys. Rev. D 80, 064015 – Published 10 September 2009

Abstract

We extend to curved backgrounds all flat-space scalar field models that obey purely second-order equations, while maintaining their second-order dependence on both field and metric. This extension simultaneously restores to second order the, originally higher derivative, stress tensors as well. The process is transparent and uniform for all dimensions.

  • Received 10 June 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.064015

©2009 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

C. Deffayet*

  • AstroParticule & Cosmologie, UMR 7164-CNRS, Université Denis Diderot-Paris 7, CEA, Observatoire de Paris, 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France

S. Deser

  • Physics Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA, and Lauritsen Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA

G. Esposito-Farèse

  • GReCO, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, UMR 7095-CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, 98bis boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France

  • *deffayet@iap.fr
  • deser@brandeis.edu
  • gef@iap.fr

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Vol. 80, Iss. 6 — 15 September 2009

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