No van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov Discontinuity for Supergravity in AdS Space
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-07-19 v2
Abstract
Adding explicit mass terms for the spin 2 and spin 3/2 field of N=1 anti-de Sitter supergravity, the limit M --> 0 for these mass terms is smooth: there is no van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov mass discontinuity in the propagators when the cosmological constant is non-vanishing.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0011278,
title = {No van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov Discontinuity for Supergravity in AdS Space},
author = {P. A. Grassi and P. van Nieuwenhuizen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0011278},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
November 2000, 7pp, misprints and typos corrected