Massive, topologically massive, models

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/11/101zbMATH Open1003.83031arXivhep-th/0203273OpenAlexW2070889634MaRDI QIDQ4550129FDOQ4550129

Stanley Deser, Bayram Tekin

Publication date: 23 October 2002

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

Abstract: In three dimensions, there are two distinct mass-generating mechanisms for gauge fields: adding the usual Proca/Pauli-Fierz, or the more esoteric Chern-Simons (CS), terms. Here we analyze the three-term models where both types are present, and their various limits. Surprisingly, in the tensor case, these seemingly innocuous systems are physically unacceptable. If the sign of the Einstein term is ``wrong as is in fact required in the CS case, then the excitation masses are always complex; with the usual sign, there is a (known) region of the two mass parameters where reality is restored, but instead we show that a ghost problem arises, while, for the ``pure mass two-term system without an Einstein action, complex masses are unavoidable. This contrasts with the smooth behavior of the corresponding vector models. Separately, we show that the ``partial masslessness exhibited by (plain) massive spin-2 models in de Sitter backgrounds is formally shared by the three-term system: it also enjoys a reduced local gauge invariance when this mass parameter is tuned to the cosmological constant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0203273

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zbMATH Keywords

tachyonghostsEinstein actionChern-Simons (CS), termsmassive spin-2 modelstopologically massive tensor (TMG) gauge theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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