Pathological behaviour of the scalar graviton in Hořava-Lifshitz gravity

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2010)061MaRDI QIDQ364983zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kazuya Koyama, Frederico Arroja

Publication date 3 September 2013

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.1998

zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMmodels of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unified quantum theories (81V22) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We confirm the recent claims that, in the infrared limit of Hov{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity, the scalar graviton becomes a ghost if the sound speed squared is positive on the flat de Sitter and Minkowski background. In order to avoid the ghost and tame the instability, the sound speed squared should be negative and very small, which means that the flow parameter $lambda$ should be very close to its General Relativity (GR) value. We calculate the cubic interactions for the scalar graviton which are shown to have a similar structure with those of the curvature perturbation in k-inflation models. The higher order interactions become increasing important for a smaller sound speed squared, that is, when the theory approaches GR. This invalidates any linearized analysis and any predictability is lost in this limit as quantum corrections are not controllable. This pathological behaviour of the scalar graviton casts doubt on the validity of the projectable version of the theory.

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