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有鬼质量引力理论中的非de Sitter不变真空

No de Sitter invariant vacuum in massive gravity theory with ghost

Keisuke Izumi, Takahiro Tanaka

摘要:

本文指出,在de Sitter背景下具有引力子鬼模的大质量引力理论不可能具有de Sitter不变真空态。为了避免负范数态,我们必须将鬼模的产生算符与负能量模函数而不是正能量模函数相关联。也就是说,我们必须对鬼信号采用不同的量子化过程。当一个理论具有混合鬼模和普通非鬼模的对称性时,鬼模的选择不是唯一的。然而,如果不指定鬼模式的选择,鬼的量化是不可能的,这破坏了对称性。由于这个原因,真空态不能遵守对称性。在德西特背景下存在引力子鬼模的大质量引力理论中,鬼模是引力子的螺旋度为0的模。在de Sitter对称性的作用下,这种鬼模与其他螺旋引力子模混合。因此,在这样的模型中不存在de Sitter不变真空。这导致了一个有趣的可能性,即低能有效理论的非协变截止可能会自然出现。结果,由于鬼粒子和正常的非鬼粒子的对产生的不稳定性变得温和得多,模型可能会逃脱被拒绝。

英文摘要:

In this letter we point out that the massive gravity theory with a graviton ghost mode in de Sitter background cannot possess a de Sitter invariant vacuum state. In order to avoid a negative norm state, we must associate the creation operator of the ghost mode with a negative-energy mode function instead of a positive-energy one as the mode function. Namely, we have to adopt a different procedure of quantization for a ghost. When a theory has a symmetry mixing a ghost mode with ordinary non-ghost modes, the choice of a ghost mode is not unique. However, quantization of a ghost is impossible without specifying a choice of ghost mode, which breaks the symmetry. For this reason, the vacuum state cannot respect the symmetry. In the massive gravity theory with a graviton ghost mode in de Sitter background, the ghost is the helicity-0 mode of the graviton. This ghost mode is mixed with the other helicity graviton modes under the action of de Sitter symmetry. Therefore, there is no de Sitter invariant vacuum in such models. This leads to an interesting possibility that non-covariant cutoff of the low energy effective theory may naturally arise. As a result, the instability due to the pair production of a ghost and normal non-ghost particles gets much milder and that the model may escape from being rejected.

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