Very special linear gravity: a gauge-invariant graviton mass

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2022.137080MaRDI QIDQ2140676zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alessandro Santoni, Jorge Alfaro

Publication date 23 May 2022

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05485

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Small divisors, rotation domains and linearization in holomorphic dynamics (37F50) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Special relativity (83A05) Dispersion theory, dispersion relations arising in quantum theory (81U30) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: Linearized gravity in the Very Special Relativity (VSR) framework is considered. We prove that this theory allows for a non-zero graviton mass $m_g$ without breaking gauge invariance nor modifying the relativistic dispersion relation. We find the analytic solution for the new equations of motion in our gauge choice, verifying as expected the existence of only two physical degrees of freedom. Finally, through the geodesic deviation equation, we confront some results for classic gravitational waves (GW) with the VSR ones: we see that the ratios between VSR effects and classical ones are proportional to $(m_g/E{)}^2$, $E$ being the energy of a graviton in the GW. For GW detectable by the interferometers LIGO and VIRGO this ratio is at most $10^{-20}$. However, for GW in the lower frequency range of future detectors, like LISA, the ratio increases significantly to $10^{-10}$, that combined with the anisotropic nature of VSR phenomena may lead to observable effects.

Recommendations

• Gravity from local Lorentz violation
• Lorentz violation in the linearized gravity
• Lorentz and diffeomorphism violations in linearized gravity
• Lorentz violation in the linearized gravity
• Gravitational wave in Lorentz violating gravity

Cites work

• FRW cosmology in ghost free massive gravity from bigravity
• Massive gravity
• On the cosmology of massive gravity
• Very special relativity

Cited in

(3)

• Renormalization of very special relativity gauge theories
• A NEW LOOK INTO THE GRAVITON MASS
• Light-light scattering in very special relativity quantum electrodynamics and cosmic anisotropies

This page was built for publication: Very special linear gravity: a gauge-invariant graviton mass

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2140676)