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Graviton mass and cosmological constant: a toy model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-05-31 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

I consider a simple model where the graviton mass and the cosmological constant depend on a scalar field with appropriate couplings and I calculate the graviton propagator and the resulting effective potential for the scalar field in order to examine issues of stability and symmetry breaking.

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@article{arxiv.1010.0246,
  title  = {Graviton mass and cosmological constant: a toy model},
  author = {Dimitrios Metaxas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.0246},
  year   = {2018}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures, revised version