Spacetime Brout-Englert-Higgs effect in General Relativity interacting with p-brane matter
arXiv:1001.4388 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/229/1/012017
Abstract
We review the manifestation of the Brout-Englert-Higgs effect in general relativity interacting with point-like and extended objects (p-branes including string for p=1 and membrane for p=2), which manifests itself in the appearance of the brane source in the Einstein equation while the graviton remains massless (hep-th/0112207, hep-th/0507197 and refs therein), and discuss briefly its relation and differences with the model for massive spin 2 field proposed recently by G. t'Hooft in [arXiv:0708.3184 [hep-th]].
LaTeX, jpconf class, 5 pages. Contribution to the Procs. of the ERE2009 Meeting, Bilbao, September 2009