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Claudia de Rham July 5 th 2012 Work in collaboration with Work in collaboration with Sbastien Renaux-Petel 1206.3482

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Massive Gravity

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The notion of mass requires a reference !

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Massive Gravity The notion of mass requires a reference !

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Massive Gravity The notion of mass requires a reference ! Flat Metric Metric

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Massive Gravity The notion of mass requires a reference ! Having the flat Metric as a Reference breaks Covariance !!! (Coordinate transformation invariance)

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Massive Gravity The notion of mass requires a reference ! Having the flat Metric as a Reference breaks Covariance !!! (Coordinate transformation invariance) The loss in symmetry generates new dof GR Loss of 4 sym

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Massive Gravity The notion of mass requires a reference ! Having the flat Metric as a Reference breaks Covariance !!! (Coordinate transformation invariance) The loss in symmetry generates new dof Boulware & Deser, PRD6, 3368 (1972)

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Fierz-Pauli Massive Gravity Mass term for the fluctuations around flat space-time Fierz & Pauli, Proc.Roy.Soc.Lond.A 173, 211 (1939)

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Fierz-Pauli Massive Gravity Mass term for the fluctuations around flat space-time Transforms under a change of coordinate

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Fierz-Pauli Massive Gravity Mass term for the covariant fluctuations Does not transform under that change of coordinate

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Fierz-Pauli Massive Gravity Mass term for the covariant fluctuations The potential has higher derivatives... Total derivative

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Fierz-Pauli Massive Gravity Mass term for the covariant fluctuations The potential has higher derivatives... Total derivative Ghost reappears at the non-linear level

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Ghost-free Massive Gravity

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With Has no ghosts at leading order in the decoupling limit CdR, Gabadadze, 1007.0443 CdR, Gabadadze, Tolley, 1011.1232

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Ghost-free Massive Gravity In 4d, there is a 2-parameter family of ghost free theories of massive gravity CdR, Gabadadze, 1007.0443 CdR, Gabadadze, Tolley, 1011.1232

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Ghost-free Massive Gravity In 4d, there is a 2-parameter family of ghost free theories of massive gravity Absence of ghost has now been proved fully non- perturbatively in many different languages CdR, Gabadadze, 1007.0443 CdR, Gabadadze, Tolley, 1011.1232 Hassan & Rosen, 1106.3344 CdR, Gabadadze, Tolley, 1107.3820 CdR, Gabadadze, Tolley, 1108.4521 Hassan & Rosen, 1111.2070 Hassan, Schmidt-May & von Strauss, 1203.5283

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Ghost-free Massive Gravity In 4d, there is a 2-parameter family of ghost free theories of massive gravity Absence of ghost has now been proved fully non- perturbatively in many different languages As well as around any reference metric, be it dynamical or notBiGravity !!! Hassan, Rosen & Schmidt-May, 1109.3230 Hassan & Rosen, 1109.3515

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Ghost-free Massive Gravity One can construct a consistent theory of massive gravity around any reference metric which - propagates 5 dof in the graviton (free of the BD ghost) - one of which is a helicity-0 mode which behaves as a scalar field couples to matter - hides itself via a Vainshtein mechanism Vainshtein, PLB39, 393 (1972)

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But... The Vainshtein mechanism always comes hand in hand with superluminalities... This doesnt necessarily mean CTCs, but - there is a family of preferred frames - there is no absolute notion of light-cone. Burrage, CdR, Heisenberg & Tolley, 1111.5549

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But... The Vainshtein mechanism always comes hand in hand with superluminalities... The presence of the helicity-0 mode puts strong bounds on the graviton mass

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But... The Vainshtein mechanism always comes hand in hand with superluminalities... The presence of the helicity-0 mode puts strong bounds on the graviton mass Is there a different region in parameter space where the helicity-0 mode could also be absent ???

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Change of Ref. metric Hassan & Rosen, 2011 Consider massive gravity around dS as a reference ! dS Metric Metric dS is still a maximally symmetric ST Same amount of symmetry as massive gravity around Minkowski !

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Massive Gravity in de Sitter Only the helicity-0 mode gets seriously affected by the dS reference metric

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Massive Gravity in de Sitter Only the helicity-0 mode gets seriously affected by the dS reference metric Healthy scalar field (Higuchi bound) Higuchi, NPB282, 397 (1987)

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Massive Gravity in de Sitter Only the helicity-0 mode gets seriously affected by the dS reference metric Higuchi, NPB282, 397 (1987) Healthy scalar field (Higuchi bound)

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Massive Gravity in de Sitter Only the helicity-0 mode gets seriously affected by the dS reference metric The helicity-0 mode disappears at the linear level when

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Massive Gravity in de Sitter Only the helicity-0 mode gets seriously affected by the dS reference metric The helicity-0 mode disappears at the linear level when Recover a symmetry Deser & Waldron, 2001

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Partially massless Is different from the minimal model for which all the interactions cancel in the usual DL, but the kinetic term is still present

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Partially massless Is different from the minimal model for which all the interactions cancel in the usual DL, but the kinetic term is still present Is different from FRW models where the kinetic term disappears in this case the fundamental theory has a helicity-0 mode but it cancels on a specific background

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Partially massless Is different from the minimal model for which all the interactions cancel in the usual DL, but the kinetic term is still present Is different from FRW models where the kinetic term disappears in this case the fundamental theory has a helicity-0 mode but it cancels on a specific background Is different from Lorentz violating MG no Lorentz symmetry around dS, but still have same amount of symmetry.

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(Partially) massless limit Massless limit GR + mass term Recover 4d diff invariance GR in 4d: 2 dof (helicity 2)

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(Partially) massless limit Massless limit Partially Massless limit GR + mass term Recover 4d diff invariance GR GR + mass term Recover 1 symmetry Massive GR 4 dof (helicity 2 &1) Deser & Waldron, 2001 in 4d: 2 dof (helicity 2)

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Non-linear partially massless

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Lets start with ghost-free theory of MG, But around dS dS ref metric

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Non-linear partially massless Lets start with ghost-free theory of MG, But around dS And derive the decoupling limit (ie leading interactions for the helicity-0 mode) dS ref metric But we need to properly identify the helicity-0 mode first....

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Helicity-0 on dS on de Sitter on Minkowski To identify the helicity-0 mode on de Sitter, we copy the procedure on Minkowski. Can embed d-dS into (d+1)-Minkowski: CdR & Sbastien Renaux-Petel, arXiv:1206.3482

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Helicity-0 on dS on de Sitter on Minkowski To identify the helicity-0 mode on de Sitter, we copy the procedure on Minkowski. Can embed d-dS into (d+1)-Minkowski: CdR & Sbastien Renaux-Petel, arXiv:1206.3482

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Helicity-0 on dS on de Sitter on Minkowski To identify the helicity-0 mode on de Sitter, we copy the procedure on Minkowski. Can embed d-dS into (d+1)-Minkowski: behaves as a scalar in the dec. limit and captures the physics of the helicity-0 mode CdR & Sbastien Renaux-Petel, arXiv:1206.3482

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Helicity-0 on dS on de Sitter on Minkowski To identify the helicity-0 mode on de Sitter, we copy the procedure on Minkowski. The covariantized metric fluctuation is expressed in terms of the helicity-0 mode as CdR & Sbastien Renaux-Petel, arXiv:1206.3482 in any dimensions...

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Decoupling limit on dS Using the properly identified helicity-0 mode, we can derive the decoupling limit on dS Since we need to satisfy the Higuchi bound, CdR & Sbastien Renaux-Petel, arXiv:1206.3482

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Decoupling limit on dS Using the properly identified helicity-0 mode, we can derive the decoupling limit on dS Since we need to satisfy the Higuchi bound, The resulting DL resembles that in Minkowski (Galileons), but with specific coefficients... CdR & Sbastien Renaux-Petel, arXiv:1206.3482

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DL on dS CdR & Sbastien Renaux-Petel, arXiv:1206.3482 + non-diagonalizable terms mixing h and . d terms + d-3 terms (d-1) free parameters (m 2 and 3,...,d)

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DL on dS The kinetic term vanishes if All the other interactions vanish simultaneously if CdR & Sbastien Renaux-Petel, arXiv:1206.3482 + non-diagonalizable terms mixing h and . d terms + d-3 terms (d-1) free parameters (m 2 and 3,...,d)

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Massless limit In the massless limit, the helicity-0 mode still couples to matter The Vainshtein mechanism is active to decouple this mode

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Partially massless limit Coupling to matter eg.

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Partially massless limit The symmetry cancels the coupling to matter There is no Vainshtein mechanism, but there is no vDVZ discontinuity...

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Partially massless limit Unless we take the limit without considering the PM parameters . In this case the standard Vainshtein mechanism applies.

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Partially massless We uniquely identify the non-linear candidate for the Partially Massless theory to all orders. In the DL, the helicity-0 mode entirely disappear in any dimensions What happens beyond the DL is still to be worked out As well as the non-linear realization of the symmetry... Work in progress with Kurt Hinterbichler, Rachel Rosen & Andrew Tolley See Deser&Waldron Zinoviev