eprintid: 22932
rev_number: 18
eprint_status: archive
userid: 3102
dir: disk0/00/02/29/32
datestamp: 2017-05-18 09:30:52
lastmod: 2017-06-19 10:44:51
status_changed: 2017-05-18 09:30:52
type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Könnig, Frank
title: Cosmological Viability of Theories with Massive Spin-2 Fields
subjects: 500
subjects: 520
subjects: 530
divisions: 130300
adv_faculty: af-13
abstract: Theories of spin-2 fields take on a particular role in modern physics. They do not only describe the mediation of gravity, the only theory of fundamental interactions of
which no quantum field theoretical description exists, it furthermore was thought that they necessarily predict massless gauge bosons. Just recently, a consistent theory of
a massive graviton was constructed and, subsequently, generalized to a bimetric theory of two interacting spin-2 fields. This thesis studies both the viability and consequences at cosmological scales in massive gravity as well as bimetric theories. We show that all consistent models that are free of gradient and ghost instabilities behave like the cosmological standard model, LCDM. In addition, we construct a new theory of massive gravity which is stable at both classical background and quantum level, even though it suffers from the Boulware-Deser ghost.
date: 2017
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00022932
ppn_swb: 1659155517
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-229328
date_accepted: 2017-03-30
advisor: HASH(0x556120d17d78)
language: eng
bibsort: KONNIGFRANCOSMOLOGIC2017
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
citation:   Könnig, Frank  (2017) Cosmological Viability of Theories with Massive Spin-2 Fields.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22932/1/thesis.pdf