Published February 2013 | Version v1
Journal article

Tricritical gravity waves in the four-dimensional generalized massive gravity

  • 1. Sogang University, Center for Quantum Space-Time, Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. Inje University, Institute of Basic Sciences and School of Computer Aided Science, Gimhae (Korea, Republic of)

Description

We construct a generalized massive gravity by combining quadratic curvature gravity with the Chern-Simons term in four dimensions. This may be a candidate for the parity-odd tricritical gravity theory. Considering the AdS4 vacuum solution, we derive the linearized Einstein equation, which is not similar to that of the three dimensional (3D) generalized massive gravity. When a perturbed metric tensor is chosen to be the Kerr-Schild form, the linearized equation reduces to a single massive scalar equation. At the tricritical points where two masses are equal to -1 and 2, we obtain a log-square wave solution to the massive scalar equation. This is compared to 3D tricritical generalized massive gravity, whose dual is a rank-3 logarithmic conformal field theory. (orig.)

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2308-y

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C
Journal Volume
73
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 1-8
ISSN
1434-6044