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Complete Decoupling Limit of Ghost-free Massive Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-16 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present the complete form of the decoupling limit of ghost-free massive gravity with a Minkowski reference metric, including the full interactions of the helicity-1 and helicity-0 modes of the massive spin-2 field. While in the metric language the square root structure of the mass terms makes it difficult to find a simple way to write down the interactions, we show that using the vierbein formulation of massive gravity, including Stueckelberg fields for both diffeomorphism and local Lorentz symmetries, we can find an explicitly resummed expression for the helicity-1 field interactions. We clarify the equations of motion for the Lorentz Stueckelberg fields and how these generate the symmetric vierbein condition which guarantees equivalence between the vierbein and metric formulations of massive gravity.

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@article{arxiv.1307.4769,
  title  = {Complete Decoupling Limit of Ghost-free Massive Gravity},
  author = {Nicholas A. Ondo and Andrew J. Tolley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.4769},
  year   = {2015}
}

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20 pages, typos corrected, references added

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