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We discuss the gauging of non-linearly realized symmetries as a method to systematically construct spontaneously broken gauge theories. We focus in particular on galileon fields and, using a coset construction, we show how to recover massive gravity by gauging the galileon symmetry. We then extend our procedure to the special galileon, and obtain a theory that couples a massive spin-2 field with a traceless symmetric field, and is free of pathologies at quadratic order around flat space.
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Garcia-Saenz, S., Kang, J. & Penco, R. Gauged galileons. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 81 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)081
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