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 α'. 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 dimensionfulrescaling of α'.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 031 |
Journal | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Volume | 2021 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2021 |
Keywords
- modified gravity
- string theory and cosmology
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Astronomy and Astrophysics