Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2004-03-16
Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 064005
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
13 LaTex pages; 1 eps figure; v2 some errors corrected; results unchanged
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.064005
A graviton of a nonzero mass and decay width propagates five physical polarizations. The question of interactions of these polarizations is crucial for viability of models of massive/metastable gravity. This question is addressed in the context of the DGP model of a metastable graviton. First, I argue that the well-known breakdown of a naive perturbative expansion at a low scale is an artifact of the weak-field expansion itself. Then, I propose a different expansion -- the constrained perturbation theory -- in which the breakdown does not occur and the theory is perturbatively tractable all the way up to its natural ultraviolet cutoff. In this approach the couplings of the extra polarizations to matter and their selfcouplings appear to be suppressed and should be neglected in measurements at sub-horizon scales. The model reproduces results of General Relativity at observable distances with high accuracy, while predicting deviations from them at the present-day horizon scale.
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