Absence of the Higuchi bound in a family of alternative linear massive spin-2 models

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC7B06zbMATH Open1498.83042arXiv2003.06052OpenAlexW4283272016MaRDI QIDQ5090237FDOQ5090237

Authors: Hemily G. M. Fortes, M. E. S. Alves 

Publication date: 18 July 2022

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

Abstract: There is a well known result from the Fierz-Pauli (FP) theory in de Sitter background that is the existence of a lower bound for the mass $m$ of the spin 2 particle, the Higuchi bound. It establishes that $m^{2}geq2H^2$, where $H$ is the Hubble parameter, in order to the theory presents no ghost-like instabilities. In this sense, $m$ should be unacceptable high in order to fulfill this condition at the time of the inflationary epoch of the Universe, posing a difficulty to conciliate the FP theory with cosmology. In this letter we show that the Higuchi bound can be circumvented in an alternative description of massive spin-2 particles known as $mathcalL(a_1)$ models. In maximally symmetric spaces the theory has two free parameters which can be consistently chosen in order to make the model absent of a lower bound for $m$. Then, $m$ can be arbitrarily smaller than the energy scale of inflation avoiding instabilities at that time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06052

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zbMATH Keywords

gravitationmodified theories of gravitygravitonHiguchi

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73)

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