Mass generation with Gauss-Bonnet term : No van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov discontinuity in AdS space

2000/12/09 by Yun Soo Myung, Y. S. Myung, Myung, Y. S.
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0012082

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Abstract

We prove that in anti de Sitter space, there is no van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov discontinuity in the graviton propagator. Here we obtain the mass term of M²∝ Λ² from the Gauss-Bonnet term, which is a ghost-free one. The condition that the massless limit is smooth is automatically satisfied for this case.

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