Massive gravity: Resolving the puzzles

Lasma Alberte; Ali H. Chamseddine; Viatcheslav Mukhanov

doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2010)023

Massive gravity: Resolving the puzzles

Lasma Alberte, Ali H. Chamseddine, Viatcheslav Mukhanov

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We consider the massless limit of Higgs gravity, where the graviton becomes massive when the scalar fields acquire expectation values. We determine the Vainshtein scale and prove that massive gravity smoothly goes to General Relativity below this scale. We find that the Vainshtein scale depends on the particular action of scalar fields used to give mass to the graviton.

Original language	English
Article number	23
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2010
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2010)023
State	Published - 1 Jan 2010
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Classical theories of gravity
Gauge symmetry
Spontaneous symmetry breaking

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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