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Quantum Corrections in Massive Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-11-13 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We compute the one-loop quantum corrections to the potential of ghost-free massive gravity. We show how the mass of external matter fields contribute to the running of the cosmological constant, but do not change the ghost-free structure of the massive gravity potential at one-loop. When considering gravitons running in the loops, we show how the structure of the potential gets destabilized at the quantum level, but in a way which would never involve a ghost with a mass smaller than the Planck scale. This is done by explicitly computing the one-loop effective action and supplementing it with the Vainshtein mechanism. We conclude that to one-loop order the special mass structure of ghost-free massive gravity is technically natural.

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@article{arxiv.1307.7169,
  title  = {Quantum Corrections in Massive Gravity},
  author = {Claudia de Rham and Lavinia Heisenberg and Raquel H. Ribeiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.7169},
  year   = {2013}
}

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v2: References added, 29 pages, 7 figures

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