A Higgs Mechanism for Gravity. Part II: Higher Spin Connections

dc.creatorBoulanger, Nicolas
dc.creatorKirsch, Ingo
dc.date2006-02-22
dc.date2006-05-09
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:46:03Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:46:03Z
dc.descriptionWe continue the work of hep-th/0503024 in which gravity is considered as the Goldstone realization of a spontaneously broken diffeomorphism group. We complete the discussion of the coset space Diff(d,R)/SO(1,d-1) formed by the d-dimensional group of analytic diffeomorphisms and the Lorentz group. We find that this coset space is parameterized by coordinates, a metric and an infinite tower of higher-spin-like or generalized connections. We then study effective actions for the corresponding symmetry breaking which gives mass to the higher spin connections. Our model predicts that gravity is modified at high energies by the exchange of massive higher spin particles.
dc.description17 pages; discussion on local Poincare invariance and matter currents added; references added
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0602225
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0602225
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D73:124023,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.73.124023
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/183106
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleA Higgs Mechanism for Gravity. Part II: Higher Spin Connections
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