MASSIVE GRAVITY IN CURVED COSMOLOGICAL BACKGROUNDS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X09043146MaRDI QIDQ5322392zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Masahiro Maeno, Ichiro Oda

Publication date 21 July 2009

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1394

zbMATH Keywords

accelerating universeghost condensationgravitational Higgs mechanismmassive gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We study the physical propagating modes in a massive gravity model in curved cosmological backgrounds, which we have found as classical solutions in our previous paper. We show that, generically, there exist such the cosmological background solutions consistent with the equations of motion where we assume the ghost condensation ansatzes. Using the (1+3)-parametrization of the metric fluctuations with 'unitary' gauge, we find that there is neither a scalar ghost nor a tachyon in the spectrum of the propagating modes, the tensor modes become massive owing to gravitational Higgs mechanism, and the model is free of the Boulware-Deser instability. The price we have to pay is that the scalar sector breaks the Lorentz-invariance, but there are no pathologies in the spectrum and lead to interesting phenomenology. Moreover, we present a proof of the absence of non-unitary modes for a specific ghost condensation model in a cosmological background.

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