Published December 7, 2001
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Newtonian counterparts of spin 2 massless discontinuities
Abstract
Massive spin 2 theories in flat or cosmological (Λ≠0) backgrounds are subject to discontinuities as the masses tend to zero. We show and explain physically why their Newtonian limits do not inherit this behaviour. On the other hand, conventional 'Newtonian cosmology', where Λ is a constant source of the potential, displays discontinuities: e.g. for any finite range, Λ can be totally removed.
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© 2001 IOP Publishing Ltd. Received 28 September 2001; Published 21 November 2001. We thank A Waldron and the authors of [13] for stimulating correspondence. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation grant PHY99-73935.Attached Files
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- 77718
- DOI
- 10.1088/0264-9381/18/23/103
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20170524-132447595
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- https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0109091 (URL)
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- NSF
- PHY99-73935
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