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Quantum Discontinuity for Massive Spin 3/2 with a Lambda Term

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-05 v1

Abstract

We show that the recently demonstrated absence of the van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov discontinuity for massive spin 3/2 with a Lambda term is an artifact of the tree level approximation, and that the discontinuity reappears at one loop. As a numerical check on the calculation, we rederive the vanishing of the one- loop beta function for D=11 supergravity on AdS_4 x S^7 level-by-level in the Kaluza-Klein tower.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0211183,
  title  = {Quantum Discontinuity for Massive Spin 3/2 with a Lambda Term},
  author = {M. J. Duff and James T. Liu and H. Sati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0211183},
  year   = {2010}
}