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Remarks on Higgs Mechanism for Gravitons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-20 v1

Abstract

We construct two kinds of model exhibiting Higgs mechanism for gravitons in potentials of scalar fields. One class of the model is based on a potential which is a generic function of the induced internal metric HABH^{AB}, and the other involves a potential which is a generic function of the usual metric tensor gμνg_{\mu\nu} and the induced curved metric YμνY_{\mu\nu}. In the both models, we derive conditions on the scalar potential in such a way that gravitons acquire mass in a flat Minkowski space-time without non-unitary propagating modes in the process of spontaneous symmetry breaking of diffeomorphisms through the condensation of scalar fields. We solve the conditions and find a general solution for the potential. As an interesting specific solution, we present a simple potential for which the Higgs mechanism for gravitons holds in any value of cosmological constant.

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@article{arxiv.1004.3078,
  title  = {Remarks on Higgs Mechanism for Gravitons},
  author = {Ichiro Oda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.3078},
  year   = {2014}
}

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13 pages

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