Selftuned massive spin-2 |
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Authors: | Claudia de Rham Gregory Gabadadze |
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Institution: | 1. Départment de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève, 24 Quai E. Ansermet, CH-1211, Genève, Switzerland;2. Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, Department of Physics, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA |
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Abstract: | We calculate the cubic order terms in a covariant theory that gives a nonlinear completion of the Fierz–Pauli massive spin-2 action. The resulting terms have specially tuned coefficients guarantying the absence of a ghost at this order in the decoupling limit. We show in this limit that: (1) The quadratic theory propagates helicity-2, 1, and helicity-0 states of massive spin-2. (2) The cubic terms with six derivatives – which would give ghosts on local backgrounds – cancel out automatically. (3) There is a four-derivative cubic term for the helicity-0 field, that has been known to be ghost-free on any local background. (4) There are four-derivative cubic terms that mix two helicity-0 fields with one helicity-2, or two helicity-1 fields with one helicity-0; none of them give ghosts on local backgrounds. (5) In the absence of external sources, all the cubic mixing terms can be removed by nonlinear redefinitions of the helicity-2 and helicity-1 fields. Notably, the helicity-2 redefinition generates the quartic Galileon term. These findings hint to an underlying nonlinearly realized symmetry, that should be responsible for what appears as the accidental cancellation of the ghost. |
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Keywords: | Massive gravity Nonlinear stability |
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