De Sitter vacua in ghost-free massive gravity theory

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.10.012zbMATH Open1360.83054arXiv1503.03042OpenAlexW1790634510WikidataQ59164689 ScholiaQ59164689MaRDI QIDQ526312FDOQ526312

Authors: Charles Mazuet, Mikhail S. Volkov 

Publication date: 10 May 2017

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

Abstract: We present a simple procedure to obtain all de Sitter solutions in the ghost-free massive gravity theory by using the Gordon ansatz. For these solutions the physical metric can be conveniently viewed as describing a hyperboloid in 5D Minkowski space, while the flat reference metric depends on the Stuckelberg field $T(t,r)$ that satisfies the equation $(partia{l}_{t}T{)}^2-(partia{l}_{r}T{)}^2=1$. This equation has infinitely many solutions, hence there are infinitely many de Sitter vacua with different physical properties. Only the simplest solution with $T=t$ has been previously studied since it is manifestly homogeneous and isotropic, but it is unstable. However, other solutions could be stable. We require the timelike isometry to be common for both metrics, and this gives physically distinguished solutions since only for them the canonical energy is time-independent. We conjecture that these solutions minimize the energy and are therefore stable. We also show that in some cases solutions can be homogeneous and isotropic in a non-manifest way such that their symmetries are not obvious. All of this suggests that the theory may admit viable cosmologies.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03042

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zbMATH Keywords

de Sitter spacemassive gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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