Quantum corrections in massive gravity
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 contributes to the running of the cosmological constant, but does 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.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- October 2013
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1307.7169
- Bibcode:
- 2013PhRvD..88h4058D
- Keywords:
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- 04.50.Kd;
- Modified theories of gravity;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- v2: References added, 29 pages, 7 figures