Null energy condition and superluminal propagation

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/025zbMATH Open1226.83090arXivhep-th/0512260OpenAlexW3098714636MaRDI QIDQ648625FDOQ648625

Authors: T. Gregoire, Alberto Nicolis, R. Rattazzi, S. L. Dubovsky 

Publication date: 28 November 2011

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study whether a violation of the null energy condition necessarily implies the presence of instabilities. We prove that this is the case in a large class of situations, including isotropic solids and fluids relevant for cosmology. On the other hand we present several counter-examples of consistent effective field theories possessing a stable background where the null energy condition is violated. Two necessary features of these counter-examples are the lack of isotropy of the background and the presence of superluminal modes. We argue that many of the properties of massive gravity can be understood by associating it to a solid at the edge of violating the null energy condition. We briefly analyze the difficulties of mimicking $dotH>0$ in scalar tensor theories of gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0512260

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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