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More on ghosts in DGP model

Dmitry Gorbunov, Kazuya Koyama, Sergei Sibiryakov

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0512097

Abstract

It is shown by an explicit calculation that the excitations about the self-accelerating cosmological solution of the Dvali--Gabadaze--Porrati model contain a ghost mode. This raises serious doubts about viability of this solution. Our analysis reveals the similarity between the quadratic theory for the perturbations around the self-accelerating Universe and an Abelian gauge model with two Stueckelberg fields.

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