Fully covariant van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov discontinuity, and absence thereof
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Publication:1348832
DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01656-8zbMATH Open0994.83042arXivhep-th/0203014MaRDI QIDQ1348832FDOQ1348832
Authors: M. Porrati 
Publication date: 14 May 2002
Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: In both old and recent literature, it has been argued that the celebrated van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov (vDVZ) discontinuity of massive gravity is an artifact due to linearization of the true equations of motion. In this letter, we investigate that claim. First, we exhibit an explicit -albeit somewhat arbitrary- fully covariant set of equations of motion that, upon linearization, reduce to the standard Pauli-Fierz equations. We show that the vDVZ discontinuity still persists in that non-linear, covariant theory. Then, we restrict our attention to a particular system that consistently incorporates massive gravity: the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (DGP) model. DGP is fully covariant and does not share the arbitrariness and imperfections of our previous covariantization, and its linearization exhibits a vDVZ discontinuity. Nevertheless, we explicitly show that the discontinuity does disappear in the fully covariant theory, and we explain the reason for this phenomenon.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0203014
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