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Published March 12, 2013 | Version Published
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Acausality of Massive Gravity

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  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon Brandeis University
  • 3. ROR icon University of California, Davis

Abstract

We show, by analyzing its characteristics, that the ghost-free, 5 degree of freedom, Wess-Zumino massive gravity model admits superluminal shock wave solutions and thus is acausal. Ironically, this pathology arises from the very constraint that removes the (sixth) Boulware-Deser ghost mode.

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© 2013 American Physical Society. Received 23 December 2012; published 12 March 2013. We thank M. Sandora for a very useful discussion; A.W. acknowledges the hospitality of the Lauritsen Lab, Caltech. S. D. was supported in part by NSF Grant No. PHY-1064302 and DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-164 92ER40701.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5835 (URL)

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PHY-1064302
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DE-FG02-16492ER40701

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2013-05-07
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