Global and local stability for ghosts coupled to positive energy degrees of freedom

0579077 - FZÚ 2024 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Deffayet, C. - Held, A. - Mukohyama, S. - Vikman, Alexander
Global and local stability for ghosts coupled to positive energy degrees of freedom.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Roč. 2023, č. 11 (2023), č. článku 031. ISSN 1475-7516. E-ISSN 1475-7516
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT EF15_003/0000437
Grant - others:OP VVV - CoGraDS(XE) CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15 003/0000437; AV ČR(CZ) JSPS-21-12
Program: Bilaterální spolupráce
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : dark energy theory * dark matter theory
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 6.3, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access

Negative kinetic energies correspond to ghost degrees of freedom, which are potentially of relevance for cosmology, quantum gravity, and high energy physics. We present a novel wide class of stable mechanical systems where a positive energy degree of freedom interacts with a ghost. These theories have Hamiltonians unbounded from above and from below, are integrable, and contain free functions. We show analytically that their classical motion is bounded for all initial data. Moreover, we derive conditions allowing for Lyapunov stable equilibrium points. A subclass of these stable systems has simple polynomial potentials with stable equilibrium points entirely due to interactions with the ghost. All these findings are fully supported by numerical computations which we also use to gather evidence for stability in various nonintegrable systems.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0347952