Massive Galileons and Vainshtein screening

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/02/050zbMATH Open1484.83036arXiv2008.01456OpenAlexW3132959299MaRDI QIDQ5027461FDOQ5027461

Authors: Clare Burrage, Ben Coltman, Antonio Padilla, Daniela Saadeh, Toby Wilson 

Publication date: 4 February 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Vainshtein screening mechanism relies on nonlinear interaction terms becoming dominant close to a compact source. However, theories displaying this mechanism are generally understood to be low-energy theories: it is unclear that operators emerging from UV completion do not interfere with terms inducing Vainshtein screening. In this work, we find a set of interacting massive Galileon theories that exhibit Vainshtein screening; examining potential UV completions of these theories, we determine that the screening does not survive the extension. We find that neglecting operators when integrating out a heavy field is non-trivial, and either care must be taken to ensure that omitted terms are small for the whole domain, or one is forced to work solely with the UV theory. We also comment on massive deformations of the familiar Wess-Zumino Galileons.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01456

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zbMATH Keywords

modified gravitydark energy theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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