Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/02/025
Keywords
gravity; dark energy theory
Funding
- DGICYT (Spain) [FPA 2004-02602, FPA 2005-02327]
- UCM-Santander [PR34/07-15875]
- CAM/UCM [910309]
- MEC [BES-2006-12059]
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We present a detailed study of the viability of general vector-tensor theories of gravity in the presence of an arbitrary temporal background vector field. We find that there are sex different classes of theories which are indistinguishable from General Relativity by means of local gravity experiments. We study the propagation speeds of scalar, vector and tensor perturbations and obtain the conditions for classical stability of those models. We compute the energy density of the different modes and find the conditions for the absence of ghosts in the quantum theory. We conclude that the only theories which can pass all the viability conditions for arbitrary values of the background vector field are not only those of the pure Maxwell type but also Maxwell theories supplemented with a (Lorentz type) gauge fixing term.
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