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Published March 21, 2007 | Version Published + Submitted
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A note on spin-2 fields in curved backgrounds

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  • 1. ROR icon Brandeis University
  • 2. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 3. ROR icon Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • 4. ROR icon Centro de Estudios Científicos

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.

Additional Information

© 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.

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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

Related works

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https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0611157 (URL)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09870 (URL)

Funding

NSF
PHY04-01667
Interuniversitaire des Sciences Nucléaires (IISN)
4.4505.86
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO)
Marie Curie Fellowship
MRTN-CT-2004-005104

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2007-03-10
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