Cascading Gravity is Ghost Free
arXiv:1002.1075 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.81.124027
Abstract
We perform a full perturbative stability analysis of the 6D cascading gravity model in the presence of 3-brane tension. We demonstrate that for sufficiently large tension on the (flat) 3-brane, there are no ghosts at the perturbative level, consistent with results that had previously only been obtained in a specific 5D decoupling limit. These results establish the cascading gravity framework as a consistent infrared modification of gravity.
24 pages, minor changes, argument on vector perturbations improved
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