Stability analysis for new theories of massive spin-two particle and black hole entropy of new bigravity

Yuichi Ohara, Satoshi Akagi, Shin'ichi Nojiri

Published 2014-07-22, updated 2015-04-01Version 2

In Phys.\ Rev.\ D 90 043006 (2014), we proposed a new ghost-free massive spin-two model in flat spacetime. Furthermore, as some extension, we couple the new model with a non-dynamical curved background in Phys.\ Rev.\ D 90 123013 (2014) and constructed new interaction terms without appearance of an extra mode. The characteristic property of the new model is the existence of nonlinear potential terms which give the nontrivial vacua. The presence of the nontrivial vacua, however, does not mean that the particle can be defined around all vacua. Therefore, in this paper, we discuss the condition for the new model to have stable vacua in flat spacetime and curved spacetime. Then, we couple this spin-two theory with a dynamical background and carry out the same analysis for the stability. Moreover, we investigate the effect of this new spin-two model to the Einstein gravity by calculating the black hole entropy since the gravity coupled massive spin-two theory admits a black hole solution in addition to (anti-) de Sitter space solution.