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Completing Lorentz violating massive gravity at high energies

Blas, D.  
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Sibiryakov, S.  
2015
Journal Of Experimental And Theoretical Physics

Theories with massive gravitons are interesting for a variety of physical applications, ranging from cosmological phenomena to holographic modeling of condensed matter systems. To date, they have been formulated as effective field theories with a cutoff proportional to a positive power of the graviton mass m (g) and much smaller than that of the massless theory (M (P) a parts per thousand 10(19) GeV in the case of general relativity). In this paper, we present an ultraviolet completion for massive gravity valid up to a high energy scale independent of the graviton mass. The construction is based on the existence of a preferred time foliation combined with spontaneous condensation of vector fields. The perturbations of these fields are massive and below their mass, the theory reduces to a model of Lorentz violating massive gravity. The latter theory possesses instantaneous modes whose consistent quantization we discuss in detail. We briefly study some modifications to gravitational phenomenology at low-energies. The homogeneous cosmological solutions are the same as in the standard cosmology. The gravitational potential of point sources agrees with the Newtonian one at distances small with respect to m (g) (-1) . Interestingly, it becomes repulsive at larger distances.

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DOI
10.1134/S1063776115030164
Web of Science ID

WOS:000352712900018

Author(s)
Blas, D.  
Sibiryakov, S.  
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Published in
Journal Of Experimental And Theoretical Physics
Volume

120

Issue

3

Start page

509

End page

524

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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LPPC  
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May 29, 2015
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/114533
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