A note on harmonic gauge(s) in massive gravity

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135530zbMATH Open1473.83004arXiv2006.04360OpenAlexW3033655369MaRDI QIDQ821397FDOQ821397

Authors: Giulio Gambuti, Nicola Maggiore 

Publication date: 20 September 2021

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

Abstract: We consider the harmonic gauge condition in linearized gravity, seen as a gauge theory for a symmetric tensor field. Once the harmonic gauge condition is implemented, as customary, according to the Faddeev-Popov procedure, the gauge fixed action still depends on one gauge parameter. Consequently, the harmonic gauge appears to be a class of conditions, rather than a particular one. This allows to give a physical motivation for the covariant harmonic gauge(s), which emerges when the gravitational perturbation is given a mass term. In fact, for a particular choice of harmonic gauge, we find a theory of linearized massive gravity displaying five degrees of freedom, as it should, and which is not affected by the vDVZ discontinuity, differently from what happens in the standard Fierz-Pauli theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04360

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge field theoriesFaddeev-Popov procedurelinearized massive gravityvDVZ discontinuity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Linearizations (93B18)

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