Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8193241 | Physics Letters B | 2010 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We propose an explicit non-linear realization of massive gravity, which relies on the introduction of a spurious compact extra dimension, on which we impose half-Newmann and half-Dirichlet boundary conditions. At the linearized level, we recover the expected gravitational exchange amplitude between two sources mediated by a massive Fierz-Pauli spin-2 field, while cubic interactions in the additional helicity-0 mode give rise to the expected Vainshtein mechanism. We also show that this framework can accommodate for a flat four-dimensional geometry in the presence of a cosmological constant, putting this framework on a good footing for the study of degravitation.
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Authors
Claudia de Rham,