Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2003-12-08
Phys.Rev.D72:124007,2005
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
16 pages; references and comments added
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.124007
To describe a massive graviton in 4D Minkowski space-time one introduces a quadratic term in the Lagrangian. This term, however, can lead to a readjustment or instability of the background instead of describing a massive graviton on flat space. We show that for all local Lorentz-invariant mass terms Minkowski space is unstable. We start with the Pauli-Fierz (PF) term that is the only local mass term with no ghosts in the linearized approximation. We show that nonlinear completions of the PF Lagrangian give rise to instability of Minkowski space. We continue with the mass terms that are not of a PF type. Although these models are known to have ghosts in the linearized approximations, nonlinear interactions can lead to background change due to which the ghosts are eliminated. In the latter case, however, the graviton perturbations on the new background are not massive. We argue that a consistent theory of a massive graviton on flat space can be formulated in theories with extra dimensions. They require an infinite number of fields or non-local description from a 4D point of view.
Gabadadze Gregory
Gruzinov Andrei
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