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There is a well known result from the Fierz-Pauli (FP) theory in de Sitter background that is the existence of a lower bound for the mass $m$ of the spin 2 particle, the Higuchi bound. It establishes that $m^2\geq 2H^2$, where $H$ is the…
We prove upper bounds on angular momentum and centre of mass in terms of the Hamiltonian mass and cosmological constant for non-singular asymptotically anti-de Sitter initial data sets satisfying the dominant energy condition. We work in…
In Einstein's general relativity, gravity is mediated by a massless spin-2 metric field, and its extension to include a mass for the graviton has profound implication for gravitation and cosmology. In 2002, Finn and Sutton used the…
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