A metric-affine version of the Horndeski theory
arXiv:1911.12768 · doi:10.1142/S0217751X20400102
Abstract
We study the metric-affine versions of scalar-tensor theories whose connection enters the action only algebraically. We show that the connection can be integrated out in this case, resulting in an equivalent metric theory. Specifically, we consider the metric-affine generalisations of the subset of the Horndeski theory whose action is linear in second derivatives of the scalar field. We determine the connection and find that it can describe a scalar-tensor Weyl geometry without a Riemannian frame. Still, as this connection enters the action algebraically, the theory admits the dynamically equivalent (pseudo)-Riemannian formulation in the form of an effective metric theory with an extra K-essence term. This may have interesting phenomenological applications.
arXiv comment8 pages, to appear in the thematic issue of Int. Journ. Mod. Phys. A - proceedings of the 10th Friedmann Seminar on Gravitation and Cosmology, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 23-29, 2019
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