A note on spin two fields in curved backgrounds
广义相对论与量子宇宙学
2008-11-26 v2 天体物理学
高能物理 - 理论
摘要
We reconsider the consistency constraints on a free massless symmetric, rank 2, tensor field in a background and confirm that they uniquely require it to be the linear deviation about (cosmological) Einstein gravity. Neither adding non-minimal higher derivative terms nor changing the gauge transformations by allowing terms non-analytic in the cosmological constant alters this fact.
引用
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0611157,
title = {A note on spin two fields in curved backgrounds},
author = {S. Deser and M. Henneaux},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0611157},
year = {2008}
}
备注
5 pages - Minor misprints corrected - Version accepted by Class. Quant. Grav