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Article Citation - WoS: 11Citation - Scopus: 11General Tensor Lagrangians From the Gravitational Higgs Mechanism(IOP Publishing Ltd., 2009) Demir, Durmuş Ali; Demir, Durmuş Ali; 04.05. Department of Pyhsics; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of TechnologyThe gravitational Higgs mechanism proposed by 't Hooft in arXiv:0708.3184 involves the spacetime metric gμv as well as the induced metric ḡμν oc ηab∂μΦ a∂νφb where φ(a = 0,..., 3), as we call it, break all four diffeomorphisms spontaneously via the vacuum expectation values (φa) ∝ xa. In this framework, we construct and analyze the most general action density in terms of various invariants involving the curvature tensors, connexion coefficients, and the contractions and the determinants of the two metric fields. We show that this action admits a consistent expansion about the flat background such that the resulting Lagrangian possesses several novel features not found in the linearized Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian with FierzPauli mass term (LEHL-FP): (i) its kinetic part generalizes that of LELHL-FP by weighing the corresponding structures with certain coefficients generated by invariants, (ii) the entire Lagrangian is ghost- and tachyon-free for mass terms not necessarily in the Fierz-Pauli form, and, (iii) a consistent mass term is generated with no apparent need to higher derivative couplings.