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Massive Gravity is not Positive

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-02-06 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We derive new positivity bounds at finite momentum transfer, assuming a large separation between the mass mm of the lightest particle in the effective theory and the mass gap MM to new heavy states. Massive gravity parametrically violates these bounds unless the cutoff is within one order of magnitude of the graviton mass MO(10)mM\lesssim O(10)m. Non-gravitational effective theories of massive spin-2 particles are similarly bounded.

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@article{arxiv.2304.02550,
  title  = {Massive Gravity is not Positive},
  author = {Brando Bellazzini and Giulia Isabella and Sergio Ricossa and Francesco Riva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.02550},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

v2: 8 pages + appendices & references, 3 figures. Typos fixed, references added, discussion on negativity of general spin-2 EFTs included

R2 v1 2026-06-28T09:51:14.802Z