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most citedMetric-affine Gravity and Inflation

90 citations · 276 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

hep-th2023★ 4 cited

Boundary Conditions for Constraint Systems in Variational Principle

Keisuke Izumi, Keigo Shimada, Kyosuke Tomonari +1

We show the well-posed variational principle in constraint systems. In a naive procedure of the variational principle with constraints, the proper number of boundary conditions doe…

gr-qc2022

Mimetic K-essence

Pavel Jiroušek, Keigo Shimada, Alexander Vikman +1

We propose a new non-trivial way to combine mimetic dark matter with the mimetic formulation of unimodular gravity. This yields a Weyl-invariant higher-derivative scalar-vector-ten…

gr-qc2022★ 12 cited

New Dynamical Degrees of Freedom from Invertible Transformations

Pavel Jiroušek, Keigo Shimada, Alexander Vikman +1

We show that invertible transformations of dynamical variables can change the number of dynamical degrees of freedom. Moreover, even in cases when the number of dynamical degrees o…

gr-qc2022★ 19 cited

Disforming to Conformal Symmetry

Pavel Jiroušek, Keigo Shimada, Alexander Vikman +1

We analyse the dynamical properties of disformally transformed theories of gravity. We show that disformal transformation typically introduces novel degrees of freedom, equivalent…

gr-qc2020★ 34 cited

Losing the trace to find dynamical Newton or Planck constants

Pavel Jiroušek, Keigo Shimada, Alexander Vikman +1

We show that promoting the trace part of the Einstein equations to a trivial identity results in the Newton constant being an integration constant. Thus, in this formulation the Ne…

hep-th2020★ 34 cited

Cosmological Perturbations in Palatini Formalism

Mio Kubota, Kin-ya Oda, Keigo Shimada +1

We investigate cosmological perturbations of scalar-tensor theories in Palatini formalism. First we introduce an action where the Ricci scalar is conformally coupled to a function…

hep-th2019★ 56 cited

Scalar-metric-affine theories: Can we get ghost-free theories from symmetry?

Katsuki Aoki, Keigo Shimada

We reveal the existence of a certain hidden symmetry in general ghost-free scalar-tensor theories which can only be seen when generalizing the geometry of the spacetime from Rieman…

gr-qc2018★ 90 cited

Metric-affine Gravity and Inflation

Keigo Shimada, Katsuki Aoki, Kei-ichi Maeda

We classify the metric-affine theories of gravitation, in which the metric and the connections are treated as independent variables, by use of several constraints on the connection…

gr-qc2018★ 27 cited

Galileon and generalized Galileon with projective invariance in a metric-affine formalism

Katsuki Aoki, Keigo Shimada

We study scalar-tensor theories respecting the projective invariance in the metric-affine formalism. The metric-affine formalism is a formulation of gravitational theories such tha…