Interactions of charged spin-2 fields

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/17/175008MaRDI QIDQ3447636zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors C. de Rham, Andrew Matas, Nicholas A. Ondo, Andrew J. Tolley

Publication date 27 October 2015

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5422

zbMATH Keywords

charged spin-2 fieldsdeconstructionmulti-gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: In light of recent progress in ghost-free theories of massive gravity and multi-gravity, we reconsider the problem of constructing a ghost-free theory of an interacting spin-2 field charged under a U(1) gauge symmetry. Our starting point is the theory originally proposed by Federbush, which is essentially Fierz-Pauli generalized to include a minimal coupling to a U(1) gauge field. We show the Federbush theory with a dynamical U(1) field is in fact ghost-free and can be treated as a healthy effective field theory to describe a massive charged spin-2 particle. It can even potentially have healthy dynamics above its strong-coupling scale. We then construct candidate gravitational extensions to the Federbush theory both by using Dimensional Deconstruction, and by constructing a general non-linear completion. However, we find that the U(1) symmetry forces us to modify the form of the Einstein-Hilbert kinetic term. By performing a constraint analysis directly in the first-order form, we show that these modified kinetic terms inevitably reintroduce the Boulware-Deser ghost. As a by-product of our analysis, we present a new proof for ghost-freedom of bi-gravity in 2+1 dimensions (also known as Zwei-Dreibein gravity). We also give a complementary algebraic argument that the Einstein-Hilbert kinetic term is incompatible with a U(1) symmetry, for a finite number of gravitons.

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