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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review D Année : 2016

Degenerate higher order scalar-tensor theories beyond Horndeski and disformal transformations

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We consider all degenerate scalar-tensor theories that depend quadratically on second-order derivatives of a scalar field, which we have identified in a previous work. These theories, whose degeneracy, in general, ensures the absence of Ostrogradsky’s instability, include the quartic Horndeski Lagrangian and its quartic extension beyond Horndeski, as well as other Lagrangians. We study how all these theories transform under general disformal transformations and find that they can be separated into three main classes that are stable under these transformations. This leads to a complete classification modulo disformal transformations. Finally, we show that these higher order theories include mimetic gravity and some particular khronometric theories. They also contain theories that do not correspond, to our knowledge, to already studied theories, even up to disformal transformations.
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hal-01554099 , version 1 (20-03-2024)

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Jibril Ben Achour, David Langlois, Karim Noui. Degenerate higher order scalar-tensor theories beyond Horndeski and disformal transformations. Physical Review D, 2016, 93 (12), pp.124005. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.93.124005⟩. ⟨hal-01554099⟩
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