Unitarity of higher derivative spin-3 models
High Energy Physics - Theory
2020-02-19 v1
Abstract
The fourth order in derivatives New Massive Gravity model NMG, describes a massive spin-2 particle in . At the linearized level a proof of unitarity necessarily implies that the generalization to higher dimensions includes non-unitary massless spin-2 modes. The linearized version of NMG is dual to the Fierz-Pauli model FP. Here we examine the unitarity of higher derivative spin-3 models, analogues to the NMG, dual to the Singh-Hagen model SH. We find that the same kind of restriction on the dimension of the space also happens in this case, and the models are physical only in .
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@article{arxiv.1910.00648,
title = {Unitarity of higher derivative spin-3 models},
author = {E. L. Mendonça and R. Schimidt Bittencourt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.00648},
year = {2020}
}