English

Constrained Perturbative Expansion of the DGP Model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We address the vDVZ discontinuity of the 5D DGP model which consists of a 3-brane residing in a flat, infinite-volume bulk. Following a suggestion by Gabadadze [hep-th/0403161], we implement a constrained perturbative expansion parametrized by brane gauge parameters. We explore the parameter space and show that the DGP solution exhibiting the vDVZ discontinuity corresponds to a set of measure zero.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0502020,
  title  = {Constrained Perturbative Expansion of the DGP Model},
  author = {Chad Middleton and George Siopsis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0502020},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages incl. 1 figure. v2: expanded discussion on poles of propagator; to appear in Phys. Lett. B