Published August 15, 1989 | Version v1
Journal article

Interacting Lagrangian for massive spin-two field

  • 1. The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 (USA)

Description

As is well known, Kaluza-Klein compactification of five-dimensional gravity gives a four-dimensional theory of a tower of massive spin-2 fields interacting with background gravitational, electromagnetic, and scalar fields. Working to lowest order in the massive fields, one can obtain a Lagrangian for a single massive spin-2 field interacting with gravitational and other background fields which is consistent up to terms of higher order in the massive spin-2 field. This consistency depends on massive spin-2 gauge invariances which are valid up to terms of higher order in the massive field. We explicitly exhibit the four-dimensional Lagrangian and its gauge transformations. This analysis parallels a similar analysis in string theory carried out elsewhere

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review, D
Journal Volume
40
Journal Issue
4
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
1095-1100
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDA