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Ghosts in the self-accelerating DGP branch with Gauss-Bonnet effect
- Source :
- Eur.Phys.J. C75 (2015) no.6, 248
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- The Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati brane-world model provides a possible approach to address the late-time cosmic acceleration. However, it has subsequently been pointed out that a ghost instability will arise on the self-accelerating branch. Here, we carefully investigate whether this ghost problem could be possibly cured by introducing the Gauss-Bonnet term in the five-dimensional bulk action, a natural generalization to the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati model. Our analysis is carried out for a background where a de Sitter brane is embedded in an anti-de Sitter bulk. Our result shows that the ghost excitations cannot be avoided even in this modified model.<br />Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure. Version improved considerably: one footnote removed with extended discussion in Sec. I, a new paragraph added at the end of Sec. IV and another new paragraph in Sec. V, one figure and some references added
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Eur.Phys.J. C75 (2015) no.6, 248
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1405.0850
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3463-0