Monday, September 24, 2012

1209.4876 (M. Porrati)

Old and New No Go Theorems on Interacting Massless Particles in Flat
Space
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M. Porrati
We review model independent arguments showing that massless particles interacting with gravity in a Minkowski background space can have at most spin two. These arguments include a classic theorem due to Weinberg, as well as a more recent extension of the Weinberg-Witten theorem. A puzzle arising from an apparent counterexample to these theorems is examined and resolved.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4876

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