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Massive Gravity and Bigravity

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The attempt at altering the underlying fundamental theory of gravity relies strongly on abandoning one of the defining properties of General Relativity. One of these directions focuses on updating the graviton particle to a massive particle. It proves that this is not as simple as giving mass to a spin-1 particle, since the construction of a mass term for the spin-2 field requires the presence of an additional metric. In this chapter we present the interesting modification of massive gravity, as well as of bi-gravity, in which case the second metric becomes dynamical. Then, we present the basic cosmological applications of both theories.

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  2. University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain

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  3. Institute of Physics, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

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  4. University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

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  5. Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

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  6. University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

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  7. University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy

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Heisenberg, L. (2021). Massive Gravity and Bigravity. In: Saridakis, E.N., et al. Modified Gravity and Cosmology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83715-0_7

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