Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 83, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.044042
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Funding
- NASA ATP [NNX08AH27G]
- NSF [PHY-0930521]
- Department of Energy [DE-FG05-95ER40893-A020]
- Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg chair
- University of Pennsylvania
- NASA [100924, NNX08AH27G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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The 4-dimensional effective theory arising from an induced gravity action for a codimension greater than one brane consists of multiple Galileon fields pi(I), I = 1, ... , N, invariant under separate Galilean transformations for each scalar, and under an internal SO(N) symmetry. We study the viability of such models by examining spherically symmetric solutions. We find that for general, nonderivative couplings to matter invariant under the internal symmetry, such solutions exist and exhibit a Vainshtein screening effect. By studying perturbations about such solutions, we find both an inevitable gradient instability and fluctuations propagating at superluminal speeds. These findings suggest that more general, derivative couplings to matter are required for the viability of SO(N) Galileon theories.
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