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arxiv: 1307.7169 · v2 · pith:W4MEXC2Pnew · submitted 2013-07-26 · ✦ hep-th · astro-ph.CO· gr-qc

Quantum Corrections in Massive Gravity

classification ✦ hep-th astro-ph.COgr-qc
keywords gravitymassiveone-loopghost-freemasspotentialquantumstructure
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We compute the one-loop quantum corrections to the potential of ghost-free massive gravity. We show how the mass of external matter fields contribute to the running of the cosmological constant, but do 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.

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