The Stringy Origins of Galileons and their Novel Limit

Abstract

We show generalized Galileons -- a particular subclass of Horndeski gravity -- arise from a consistent Kaluza-Klein reduction of the low-energy effective action of heterotic string theory to first order in ${\alpha }^{\prime }$. This suggests Horndeski theories of gravity have a string-theoretic origin. The form of the Galileonic terms is precisely fixed by parameters of the embedding spacetime, so that only a specific subset of Horndeski theories is permitted by string theory. A novel limit of the model is considered by performing a dimensionful rescaling of ${\alpha }^{\prime }$.

arXiv comment37 pages, clarifications added, to appear in JCAP

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