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I also need the ELI25, however I think that the paper might be indicating that following the same procedure for spontaneous scalarization to vector fields may
by lumost 5y ago
I also need the ELI25, however I think that the paper might be indicating that following the same procedure for spontaneous scalarization to vector fields may yield unphysical results. That being said, I can't tell if the belief is that a ghost instability is inherently a mathematical object - or something that may be physical but we simply do not know.
> Lastly, we stress that our results are relevant for most
known extensions of spontaneous scalarization to other
fields, not just the vectors, and our study can be considered
as a first step to obtain a no-go theorem for extending
spontaneous scalarization to other fields. For vector fields,
Garcia-Saenz et al. [51] has identified the presence of ghost
and gradient instabilities in the background of compact
objects in a broad class of generalized Proca theories
[84,85]. Similar concerns were also raised in the context
of cosmology in Ref. [86]. Going beyond vector fields, all
known formulations of nonminimally coupled spin-2 fields
that could spontaneously grow are known to lead to ghost
instabilities as well [75]. Likewise, p-form fields also have
the same constraint structure we discussed in Sec. V, hence
they suffer from similar divergent terms [87]. Spontaneous
growth of spinor fields as it was introduced in Ref. [88] also
contains divergent terms.