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Intrinsic pathology of self-interacting vector fields

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We show that self-interacting vector field theories exhibit unphysical behavior even when they are not coupled to any external field. This means any theory featuring such vectors is in danger of being unphysical, an alarming prospect for many proposals in cosmology, gravity, high energy physics, and beyond. The problem arises when vector fields with healthy configurations naturally reach a point where time evolution is mathematically ill defined. We develop tools to easily identify this issue, and provide a simple and unifying framework to investigate it.

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Physical Review Letters

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.151103

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