A Scale-up of Lambda_3
arXiv:1707.01739 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.084018
Abstract
Pure massive gravity is strongly coupled at a certain low scale, known as Lambda_3. I show that the theory can be embedded into another one, with new light degrees of freedom, to increase the strong scale to a significantly larger value. Certain universal aspects of the proposed mechanism are discussed, notably that the coupling of the longitudinal mode to a stress-tensor is suppressed, thus making the linear theory consistent with the fifth-force exclusion. An example of the embedding theory studied in detail is 5D AdS massive gravity, with a large cosmological constant. In this example the 4D strong scale can be increased by 19 orders of magnitude. Holographic duality then suggests that the strong scale of the 4D massive gravity can be increased by coupling it to a 4D non-local CFT, endowed with a UV cutoff; however, the 5D classical gravity picture appears to be more tractable.
21 pages; v2: comments on certain boundary terms, as well as one on a parameter space, are added; v3 references and minor comments added, typos in two formulas corrected
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