Effective Lagrangian from higher-curvature terms: absence of a vDVZ discontinuity in AdS space

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/6/309MaRDI QIDQ4532783zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ishwaree P. Neupane

Publication date 24 July 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0108194

zbMATH Keywords

anti-de Sitter spaceNewtonian limithigher-order gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We argue that the van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov discontinuity arising in the $M^{2}o0$ limit of the massive graviton through an explicit Pauli-Fierz mass term could be absent in anti de Sitter space. This is possible if the graviton can acquire mass spontaneously from the higher curvature terms or/and the massless limit $M^{2}o0$ is attained faster than the cosmological constant $Lambdao0$. We discuss the effects of higher-curvature couplings and of an explicit cosmological term ($Lambda$) on stability of such continuity and of massive excitations.

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