Interactions of Multiple Spin-2 Fields beyond Pairwise Couplings

Phys Rev Lett. 2019 Jun 28;122(25):251101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.251101.

Abstract

Thus far, all known ghost-free interactions of multiple spin-2 fields have involved at most pairwise couplings of the fields, which are direct generalizations of bimetric interactions. We present a class of spin-2 theories with genuine multifield interactions and explicitly demonstrate the absence of ghost instabilities. The construction involves integrating out a nondynamical field in a theory of spin-2 fields with only pairwise ghost-free interactions. The new multivierbein interactions generated are not always expressible in terms of the associated metrics.