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Electromagnetically Interacting Massive Spin-2 Field: Intrinsic Cutoff and Pathologies in External Fields

2008/09/16 by Massimo Porrati, Porrati, Massimo, Rakibur Rahman +1 · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Microtubule and mitosis dynamics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0809.2807

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Abstract

By employing the Stueckelberg formalism, we argue that the theory of massive spin-2 field coupled to electromagnetism in flat space must have an intrinsic, model independent, finite UV cutoff. We show how the very existence of a cutoff has connection to other pathologies of the system, such as superluminal propagation. We comment on the generalization of the results to arbitrary spin, and to gravitational interaction.

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