Multigravity from a discrete extra dimension

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2004.03.053zbMATH Open1246.83177arXivhep-th/0311124OpenAlexW2018922860MaRDI QIDQ447178FDOQ447178

Cédric Deffayet, Jihad Mourad

Publication date: 9 September 2012

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

Abstract: Multigravity theories are constructed from the discretization of the extra dimension of five dimensional gravity. Using an ADM decomposition, the discretization is performed while maintaining the four dimensional diffeomorphism invariance on each site. We relate the Goldstone bosons used to realize nonlinearly general covariance in discretized gravity to the shift fields of the higher dimensional metric. We investigate the scalar excitations of the resulting theory and show the absence of ghosts and massive modes; this is due to a local symmetry inherited from the reparametrization invariance along the fifth dimension.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0311124

zbMATH Keywords

extra dimension of five-dimensional gravitymultigravity theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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Cited In (10)

• Cycles of interactions in multi-gravity theories
• EFT of interacting spin-2 fields
• Deconstructing supergravity: massive supermultiplets
• Strong-coupling scales and the graph structure of multi-gravity theories
• z-Weyl gravity in higher dimensions
• Non-Abelian gauge fields as components of gravity in the discretized Kaluza–Klein theory
• Generalized interaction in multigravity
• Deconstruction of gravity
• Massive gravity
• Positivity constraints on interacting spin-2 fields

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