Mass for the graviton.

DOI10.1023/A:1026611026766zbMATH Open1047.83526arXivgr-qc/9705051MaRDI QIDQ1807306FDOQ1807306

Authors: Matt Visser 

Publication date: 18 November 1999

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Can we give the graviton a mass? Does it even make sense to speak of a massive graviton? In this essay I shall answer these questions in the affirmative. I shall outline an alternative to Einstein Gravity that satisfies the Equivalence Principle and automatically passes all classical weak-field tests (GM/r approx 10^{-6}). It also passes medium-field tests (GM/r approx 1/5), but exhibits radically different strong-field behaviour (GM/r approx 1). Black holes in the usual sense do not exist in this theory, and large-scale cosmology is divorced from the distribution of matter. To do all this we have to sacrifice something: the theory exhibits {*prior geometry*}, and depends on a non-dynamical background metric.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9705051

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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