Published May 3, 2012 | Version v1
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.2012.03.081

Additional 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

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Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.