Higher Derivative Theory For Curvature Term Coupling With Scalar Field
arXiv:1906.02498 · doi:10.1007/978-981-33-4408-2_128
Abstract
Higher order derivative theories, generally suffer from instabilities, known as Ostrogradsky instabilities. This issue can be resolved by removing any existing degeneracy present in such theories. We consider a model involving at most second order derivatives of scalar field non-minimally coupled to curvature terms. Here we perform (3+1) decomposition of Lagrangian to separate second order time derivative form the rest. This is useful to check the degeneracy hidden in the Lagrangian will help us to find conditions under which Ostrogradsky instability do not appear. In our case, we find no such non trivial conditions which can stop the appearance of the Ostrogradsky ghost.
arXiv comment3 pages, No figure, Presented at XXIII DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium
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