Nonlinear properties of vielbein massive gravity

DOI10.1140/EPJC/S10052-007-0311-XzbMATH Open1189.83027arXivhep-th/0610169OpenAlexW2033445301MaRDI QIDQ982398FDOQ982398

Authors: J. Martínez 

Publication date: 6 July 2010

Published in: The European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a non-linear extension of the Fierz-Pauli mass for the graviton through a functional of the vielbein and an external Minkowski background. The functional generalizes the notion of the measure, since it reduces to a cosmological constant if the external background is formally sent to zero. Such a term and the explicit external background, emerge dynamically from a bi--gravity theory, having both a massless and a massive graviton in its spectrum, in a specific limit in which the massless mode decouples, while the massive one couples universally to matter. We investigate the massive theory using the Stueckelberg method and providing a 't Hooft-Feynman gauge fixing in which the tensor, vector and scalar Stueckelberg fields decouple. We show that this model has the softest possible ultraviolet behavior which can be expected from any generic (Lorentz invariant) theory of massive gravity, namely that it becomes strong only at the scale Lambda_3 = (m_g^2 M_P)^{1/3}.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610169

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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