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 of the lightest particle in the effective theory and the mass gap to new heavy states. Massive gravity parametrically violates these bounds unless the cutoff is within one order of magnitude of the graviton mass . 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