Spontaneous symmetry breaking for massive spin-2 interacting with gravity

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00190-4zbMATH Open1009.83021arXivhep-th/0301014MaRDI QIDQ1864754FDOQ1864754

Authors: Ali H. Chamseddine 

Publication date: 19 March 2003

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An action for a massless graviton interacting with a massive tensor field is proposed. The model is based on coupling the metric tensor to an SP(4) gauge theory spontaneously broken to $SL(2,C)$. The symmetry breaking is achieved by using a Higgs multiplet containing a scalar field and a vector field related by a constraint. We show that in the non-unitary gauge and for the Fierz-Pauli form of the mass term, the six degrees of freedom of the massive tensor are identified with two tensor helicities, two vector helicities of the Goldstone vector, and two scalars present in the Goldstone multiplet. The propagators of this system are well behaved, in contrast to the system consisting of two tensors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0301014

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zbMATH Keywords

Higgs multipletmass termSP(4) gauge-theory metric tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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