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On strong coupling scales in (minimal) massive gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-11-06 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Ghost-free massive gravity models generically have a strong coupling scale of Λ3=(MPlm2)1/3\Lambda_3 =(M_{\rm Pl} m^2)^{1/3}. However, for one of these models - `minimal massive gravity' - it is not clear what this scale is in the subset of solutions with vanishing vector modes, since there are then no interactions at the scale Λ3\Lambda_3. We show that there are always scalar-tensor interactions at a scale arbitrarily close to Λ3\Lambda_3 around the Minkowski vacuum solution. This explicitly confirms and completes previous research establishing that Λ3\Lambda_3 effectively is the maximal strong coupling scale for all ghost-free (dRGT) massive gravity models (on Minkowski). In the process, we also revisit and clarify the construction of generic Lorentz-invariant massive gravity models, explicitly constructing an improved non-redundant expansion for these models.

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@article{arxiv.1412.4780,
  title  = {On strong coupling scales in (minimal) massive gravity},
  author = {James Bonifacio and Johannes Noller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.4780},
  year   = {2015}
}

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