Gauss-Bonnet dynamical compactification scenarios and their ghosts in the tensor sectors

Autor:	De Felice, Antonio, Larrouturou, François
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	In a cosmological context, the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory contains, in $d+4$ dimensions, a dynamical compactification scenario in which the additional dimensions settle down to a configuration with a constant radion/scale factor. Sadly however this work demonstrates that such a quite appealing framework is plagued by instabilities, either from the background configuration's unsteadiness or the ghostly behaviors of the tensorial perturbations. New and stable solutions are found by relaxing one of the hypotheses defining the original compactification scenario. However, such configurations do not respect the current bounds on the speed of propagation of gravitational waves, and thus have to be discarded. Those results thus advocate for a comprehensive study of compactification scenarios in the Gauss-Bonnet framework, their stability, and the effects of matter inclusion. Comment: 19 pages, uses RevTeX
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16983 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv