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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 83, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.103518
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- NASA ATP [NNX08AH27G]
- NSF [PHY-0930521]
- Department of Energy [DE-FG05-95ER40893-A020]
- Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg chair
- NASA [100924, NNX08AH27G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
An alternative to the effective field theory approach to treat ghosts in higher derivative theories is to attempt to integrate them out via the Euclidean path integral formalism. It has been suggested that this method could provide a consistent framework within which we might tolerate the ghost degrees of freedom that plague, among other theories, the higher derivative gravity models that have been proposed to explain cosmic acceleration. We consider the extension of this idea to treating a class of terms with order six derivatives, and find that for a general term the Euclidean path integral approach works in the most trivial background, Minkowski. Moreover we see that even in de Sitter background, despite some difficulties, it is possible to define a probability distribution for tensorial perturbations of the metric.
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