Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2004-08-17
JHEP0410:069,2004
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
5 pages; revised version
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2004/10/069
We construct effective field theories in which gravity is modified via spontaneous breaking of local Lorentz invariance. This is a gravitational analogue of the Higgs mechanism. These theories possess additional graviton modes and modified dispersion relations. They are manifestly well-behaved in the UV and free of discontinuities of the van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov type, ensuring compatibility with standard tests of gravity. They may have important phenomenological effects on large distance scales, offering an alternative to dark energy. For the case in which the symmetry is broken by a vector field with the wrong sign mass term, we identify four massless graviton modes (all with positive-definite norm for a suitable choice of a parameter) and show the absence of the discontinuity.
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