Modified gravity via spontaneous symmetry breaking

@article{Gripaios2004ModifiedGV,
  title={Modified gravity via spontaneous symmetry breaking},
  author={Ben Gripaios},
  journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
  year={2004},
  volume={2004},
  pages={069-069}
}
  • B. Gripaios
  • Published 17 August 2004
  • Physics
  • Journal of High Energy Physics
We construct effective field theories in which gravity is modified via spontaneous breaking of local Lorentz invariance. This is a gravitational analogue of the Higgs mechanism. These theories possess additional graviton modes and modified dispersion relations. They are manifestly well-behaved in the UV and free of discontinuities of the van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov type, ensuring compatibility with standard tests of gravity. They may have important phenomenological effects on large distance scales… 
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