Effects of massive gravity on p-wave holographic superconductor

In this paper, we have analytically investigated p-wave holographic superconductor in the framework of massive gravity in the probe limit. We obtained the analytical expressions for the critical temperature, the value of the condensate operator, and the difference of the free energy between the superconductor and normal phases. We studied the behavior of these quantities in the presence of the mass of graviton, which is found to be dependent almost on the sign of the massive gravity couplings. The critical temperature becomes (lower)higher and the condensate value gets (larger)smaller with (decreasing)increasing the massive gravity couplings or increasing the mass of graviton with the sufficiently (negative)positive massive gravity couplings. This fact corresponds to that the superconductor phase is (more)less thermodynamically favored. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V.