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@article{Gerhardinger:2024:10.1103/PhysRevD.109.124021,
author = {Gerhardinger, M and Giblin, JT and Tolley, AJ and Trodden, M},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.109.124021},
journal = {Physical Review D},
title = {Simulating a numerical UV completion of quartic Galileons},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.124021},
volume = {109},
year = {2024}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The Galileon theory is a prototypical effective field theory that incorporates the Vainshtein screening mechanism - a feature that arises in some extensions of general relativity, such as massive gravity. The Vainshtein effect requires that the theory contain higher order derivative interactions, which results in Galileons, and theories like them, failing to be technically well posed. While this is not a fundamental issue when the theory is correctly treated as an effective field theory, it nevertheless poses significant practical problems when numerically simulating this model. These problems can be tamed using a number of different approaches: introducing an active low-pass filter and/or constructing a UV completion at the level of the equations of motion, which controls the high momentum modes. These methods have been tested on cubic Galileon interactions, and have been shown to reproduce the correct low-energy behavior. Here we show how the numerical UV-completion method can be applied to quartic Galileon interactions, and present the first simulations of the quartic Galileon model using this technique. We demonstrate that our approach can probe physics in the regime of the effective field theory in which the quartic term dominates, while successfully reproducing the known results for cubic interactions.
AU  - Gerhardinger,M
AU  - Giblin,JT
AU  - Tolley,AJ
AU  - Trodden,M
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.124021
PY  - 2024///
SN  - 2470-0010
TI  - Simulating a numerical UV completion of quartic Galileons
T2  - Physical Review D
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.124021
VL  - 109
ER  -
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