Linearized Lorentz-violating gravity and discriminant locus in the moduli space of mass terms

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/5/055402MaRDI QIDQ5305404zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sergey V. Mironov, A. Mironov, Aleksey Morozov, Andrey Morozov

Publication date 22 March 2010

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5245

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We analyze the pattern of normal modes in linearized Lorentz-violating massive gravity over the 5-dimensional moduli space of mass terms. Ghost-free theories arise at bifurcation points when the ghosts get out of the spectrum of propagating particles due to vanishing of the coefficient in front of omega^2 in the propagator. Similarly, the van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov (DVZ) discontinuities in the Newton law arise at another type of bifurcations, when the coefficient vanishes in front of vec k^2. When the Lorentz invariance is broken, these two kinds of bifurcations get independent and one can easily find a ghost-free model without the DVZ discontinuity in the moduli space, at least, in the quadratic (linearized) approximation.

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