Non-Pauli-Fierz massive gravitons
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Gia Dvali1, Oriol Pujolàs, Michele Redi
1CERN, Theory Division, Geneva 23, Switzerland.
Abstract:
We study general Lorentz invariant theories of massive gravitons. We show that, contrary to the standard lore, there exist consistent theories where the graviton mass term violates Pauli-Fierz structure. For theories where the graviton is a resonance, this does not imply the existence of a scalar ghost if the deviation from a Pauli-Fierz structure becomes sufficiently small at high energies. These types of mass terms are required by any consistent realization of the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati model in higher dimension.
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