Ghost-free massive gravity with a general reference metric

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Hassan, S F ^a   Rosen, Rachel A ^b   Schmidt May, Angnis ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical theories of gravity; Cosmology of theories beyond the SM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857818708     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2012)026     Document Type: Article

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