Linearized Lorentz-Violating Gravity and Discriminant Locus in the Moduli Space of Mass Terms

Details Linearized Lorentz-Violating Gravity and Discriminant Locus in the Moduli Space of Mass Terms Linearized Lorentz-Violating Gravity and Discriminant Locus in the Moduli Space of Mass Terms

2009-10-28

arxiv.org/abs/0910.5245v1

J.Phys.A43:055402,2010

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

29 pages

Scientific paper

10.1088/1751-8113/43/5/055402

We analyze the pattern of normal modes in linearized Lorentz-violating massive gravity over the 5-dimensional moduli space of mass terms. Ghost-free theories arise at bifurcation points when the ghosts get out of the spectrum of propagating particles due to vanishing of the coefficient in front of \omega^2 in the propagator. Similarly, the van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov (DVZ) discontinuities in the Newton law arise at another type of bifurcations, when the coefficient vanishes in front of \vec k^2. When the Lorentz invariance is broken, these two kinds of bifurcations get independent and one can easily find a ghost-free model without the DVZ discontinuity in the moduli space, at least, in the quadratic (linearized) approximation.

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