Acausality of Massive Charged Spin 2 Fields

2003/04/07 by S. Deser, Deser, S., A. Waldron +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0304050

arxiv created 2003/04/07 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

The recent claim in hep-th/0302225 that, contrary to all previous work, massive charged s=2 fields propagate causally is false.

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