Published March 21, 2007
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A note on spin-2 fields in curved backgrounds
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Deser, S.
- Henneaux, M.
Abstract
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.
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© 2007 Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing Limited. Received 4 December 2006, in final form 25 January 2007. Published 6 March 2007. Print publication: Issue 6 (21 March 2007) We thank the organizers of the 'General Relativity Trimester: Gravitational Waves, Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology' at the Institut Henri Poincaré for their hospitality. SD was supported by NSF grant PHY04-01667. The work of MH is partially supported by IISN—Belgium (convention 4.4505.86), by the 'Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme—Belgian Science Policy' and by the European Commission programme MRTN-CT-2004- 005104, in which he is associated to VU Brussel.Attached Files
Published - DEScqg07.pdf
Submitted - 0611157.pdf
Submitted - 2112.09870.pdf
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- Alternative title
- Higher spin m≠0 excitations on curved backgrounds and cosmological supergravity
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- 7595
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- CaltechAUTHORS:DEScqg07
- PHY04-01667
- NSF
- 4.4505.86
- Interuniversitaire des Sciences Nucléaires (IISN)
- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO)
- MRTN-CT-2004-005104
- Marie Curie Fellowship
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