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Nonlinear completion of massive gravity of the Fierz-Pauli type

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

A possible nonlinear completion of massive gravity of the Fierz-Pauli type is proposed. The theory describes a system consisting of a massive tensor field of the Fierz-Pauli type and an additional massive vector field. Massless limit as well as flat-spacetime limit can be taken smoothly. Constructing a nonlinear version of the physical-state condition which drives an extra scalar ghost from physical states is still unsettled.

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@article{arxiv.0710.3620,
  title  = {Nonlinear completion of massive gravity of the Fierz-Pauli type},
  author = {Shinji Hamamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.3620},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Talk at the 5th International Symposium on Quantum Theory and Symmetries, Valladolid (Spain), July 2007