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Aspects of higher-curvature gravities with covariant derivatives
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We study various aspects of higher-curvature theories of gravity built from contractions of the metric, the Riemann tensor, and the covariant derivative, ℒ(𝑔𝑎𝑏,𝑅𝑎𝑏𝑐𝑑,∇𝑎). We characterize the linearized spectrum of these theories and compute the modified Newton potential in the general case. Then, we present the first examples of generalized quasitopological (GQT) gravities involving covariant derivatives of the Riemann tensor. We argue that they always have second-order equations on maximally symmetric backgrounds. Focusing on four spacetime dimensions, we find new densities of that type involving eight and ten derivatives of the metric. In the latter case, we find new modifications of the Schwarzschild black hole. These display thermodynamic properties which depart from the ones of polynomial GQT black holes. In particular, the relation between the temperature and the mass of small black holes, 𝑇∼𝑀1/3, which universally holds for general polynomial GQT modifications of Einstein gravity, gets modified in the presence of the new density with covariant derivatives to 𝑇∼𝑀3. Finally, we consider brane-world gravities induced by Einstein gravity in the AdS bulk. We show that the effective quadratic action for the brane-world theory involving arbitrary high-order terms in the action can be written explicitly in a closed form in terms of Bessel functions. We use this result to compute the propagator of metric perturbations on the brane and its pole structure in various dimensions, always finding infinite towers of ghost modes, as well as tachyons and more exotic modes in some cases.
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AGUILAR-GUTIERREZ, Sergio e., BUENO, Pablo, CANO, Pablo a., HENNIGAR, Robie a., LLORENS GIRALT, Quim. Aspects of higher-curvature gravities with covariant derivatives. _Physical Review D_. 2023. Vol. 108, núm. 1-29. [consulta: 20 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 2470-0010. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/213440]