GRAVITATIONAL HIGGS MECHANISM AND MASSIVE GRAVITY

DOI10.1142/S0217751X08039591MaRDI QIDQ5503057zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zurab Kakushadze

Publication date 12 January 2009

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.1673

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantexpanding cosmological solutionsgravitational Higgs mechanismmassive gravityspontaneously broken diffeomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: In arXiv:hep-th/0011245, in the context of domain wall backgrounds, it was shown that spontaneous breaking of diffeomorphism invariance results in gravitational Higgs mechanism. Recently in arXiv:0708.3184 't Hooft discussed gravitational Higgs mechanism in the context of obtaining massive gravity directly in four dimensions, and pointed out some subtleties with unitarity. We attribute these subtleties to breaking time-like diffeomorphisms, and discuss gravitational Higgs mechanism with all but time-like diffeomorphisms spontaneously broken. The resulting background is no longer flat but exhibits expansion, which is linear in time. For space-time dimensions D <= 10 the background is stable and has no non-unitary propagating modes. The absence of non-unitary modes is due to the unbroken time-like diffeomorphism invariance. The physical states correspond to those of a massive graviton. The effective mass squared of the graviton is positive for D < 10, and vanishes for D = 10. For D > 10 the graviton modes become effectively tachyonic. The special value of D=10, which coincides with the critical dimension of superstring theory, arises in our setup completely classically.

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