Relations between positivity, localization and degrees of freedom: the Weinberg-Witten theorem and the van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov discontinuity

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2017.08.058zbMATH Open1378.81164arXiv1703.04408OpenAlexW2596425261MaRDI QIDQ679957FDOQ679957

Authors: Jens Mund, Karl-Henning Rehren, Bert Schroer 

Publication date: 22 January 2018

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The problem of accounting for the quantum degrees of freedom in passing from massive higher-spin potentials to massless ones and its inverse, the "fattening" of massless tensor potentials of helicity $pmh$ to their massive $s=|h|$ counterparts, are solved - in a perfectly ghost-free approach - using "string-localized fields". This approach allows to overcome the Weinberg-Witten impediment against the existence of massless $|h|geq2$ energy-momentum tensors, and to qualitatively and quantitatively resolve the van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov discontinuity concerning, e.g., very light gravitons, in the limit $mo0$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04408

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25)

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