Higgs Phenomenon for 4-D Gravity in Anti de Sitter Space

Details Higgs Phenomenon for 4-D Gravity in Anti de Sitter Space Higgs Phenomenon for 4-D Gravity in Anti de Sitter Space

2001-12-19

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0112166v1

JHEP 0204:058,2002

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

17 pages

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2002/04/058

We show that standard Einstein gravity coupled to a free conformal field theory (CFT) in Anti de Sitter space can undergo a Higgs phenomenon whereby the graviton acquires a nonzero mass (and three extra polarizations). We show that the essential ingredients of this mechanism are the discreteness of the energy spectrum in AdS space, and unusual boundary conditions on the elementary fields of the CFT. These boundary conditions can be interpreted as implying the existence of a 3-d defect CFT living at the boundary of the AdS space. Our free-field computation sheds light on the essential, model-independent features of AdS that give rise to massive gravity.

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