Dynamics of Gravity in a Higgs Phase

Details Dynamics of Gravity in a Higgs Phase Dynamics of Gravity in a Higgs Phase

2005-07-11

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0507120v2

JHEP 0701:036,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

54 pages, 15 figures; postscript figures downloadable from http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~wiseman/Ghost/ghostepsfigs.tar.gz ; v

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/036

We investigate the universal low-energy dynamics of the simplest Higgs phase for gravity, `ghost condensation.' We show that the nonlinear dynamics of the `ghostone' field dominate for all interesting gravitational sources. Away from caustic singularities, the dynamics is equivalent to the irrotational flow of a perfect fluid with equation of state p \propto \rho^2, where the fluid particles can have negative mass. We argue that this theory is free from catastrophic instabilities due to growing modes, even though the null energy condition is violated. Numerical simulations show that solutions generally have singularities in which negative energy regions shrink to zero size. We exhibit partial UV completions of the theory in which these singularities are smoothly resolved, so this does not signal any inconsistency in the effective theory. We also consider the bounds on the symmetry breaking scale M in this theory. We argue that the nonlinear dynamics cuts off the Jeans instability of the linear theory, and allows M \lsim 100MeV.

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