Friday, April 27, 2012

1204.5880 (Gianmassimo Tasinato et al.)

New symmetries in Fierz-Pauli massive gravity    [PDF]

Gianmassimo Tasinato, Kazuya Koyama, Gustavo Niz
We expose a new symmetry for linear perturbations around a solution of non-linear Fierz-Pauli massive gravity plus a bare cosmological constant. The cosmological constant is chosen such that the background metric is flat while the Stuckelberg fields have a non-trivial profile. Around this background, at linear order the new symmetry reduces the propagating degrees of freedom to those of General Relativity, namely the massless helicity 2 modes only. We discuss the physical consequences and possible applications of these findings.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.5880

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