Published May 3, 2012
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Journal article
Ghost free massive gravity in the Stückelberg language
- 1. Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 (United States)
- 2. Départment de Physique Théorique and Center for Astroparticle Physics, Université de Genève, 24 Quai E. Ansermet, CH-1211 Genève (Switzerland)
- 3. Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, Department of Physics, New York University, NY 10003 (United States)
Description
Massive gravity in 4 dimensions has been shown to be free of the Boulware-Deser (BD) ghost in the ADM language for a specific choice of mass terms. We show here how this is consistent with the Stückelberg language beyond the decoupling limit, and how the constraint required to remove the BD ghost arises in this framework non-perturbatively, without the use of field redefinitions. We emphasize a subtlety in obtaining this constraint, that has been overlooked in previous literature. In both the ADM and Stückelberg formalisms the vanishing of the determinant of a Hessian guarantees the absence of the BD ghost.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.081Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.081;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1107.3820v1;
- PII
- S0370-2693(12)00379-6;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. Section B
- Journal Volume
- 711
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 190-195
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBAJ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Syrian Arab Republic
- INIS RN
- 43122128
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DECOUPLING; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GRAVITATION; MASS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.