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All Fierz-Paulian massive gravity theories have ghosts or superluminal modes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-06-21 v1

Abstract

We show that all non-linear completions of the Fierz-Pauli massive gravity are ruled out, because all theories which might be ghost-free have superluminal modes.

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@article{arxiv.1106.3972,
  title  = {All Fierz-Paulian massive gravity theories have ghosts or superluminal modes},
  author = {Andrei Gruzinov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.3972},
  year   = {2011}
}

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