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Non Pauli-Fierz Massive Gravitons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We study general Lorentz invariant theories of massive gravitons. We show that, contrary to the standard lore, there exist consistent theories where the graviton mass term violates Pauli-Fierz structure. For theories where the graviton is a resonance this does not imply the existence of a scalar ghost if the deviation from Pauli-Fierz becomes sufficiently small at high energies. These types of mass terms are required by any consistent realization of the DGP model in higher dimension.

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@article{arxiv.0806.3762,
  title  = {Non Pauli-Fierz Massive Gravitons},
  author = {Gia Dvali and Oriol Pujolas and Michele Redi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.3762},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages

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