On strong coupling scales in (minimal) massive gravity
Abstract
Ghost-free massive gravity models generically have a strong coupling scale of . 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 . We show that there are always scalar-tensor interactions at a scale arbitrarily close to around the Minkowski vacuum solution. This explicitly confirms and completes previous research establishing that 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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19 pages