No-go for partially massless spin-2 Yang-Mills
Abstract
There are various no-go results forbidding self-interactions for a single partially massless spin-2 field. Given the photon-like structure of the linear partially massless field, it is natural to ask whether a multiplet of such fields can interact under an internal Yang-Mills like extension of the partially massless symmetry. In this paper, we give two arguments that such a partially massless Yang-Mills theory does not exist. The first is that there is no Yang-Mills like non-abelian deformation of the partially massless symmetry, and the second is that cubic vertices with the appropriate structure constants do not exist.
- Authors:
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- Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
- Perimeter Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON (Canada)
- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
- Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States); Perimeter Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON (Canada)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1327261
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0011941
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2016; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Gauge Symmetry; Classical Theories of Gravity
Citation Formats
Garcia-Saenz, Sebastian, Hinterbichler, Kurt, Joyce, Austin, Mitsou, Ermis, and Rosen, Rachel A. No-go for partially massless spin-2 Yang-Mills. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2016)043.
Garcia-Saenz, Sebastian, Hinterbichler, Kurt, Joyce, Austin, Mitsou, Ermis, & Rosen, Rachel A. No-go for partially massless spin-2 Yang-Mills. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2016)043
Garcia-Saenz, Sebastian, Hinterbichler, Kurt, Joyce, Austin, Mitsou, Ermis, and Rosen, Rachel A. Fri .
"No-go for partially massless spin-2 Yang-Mills". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2016)043. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1327261.
@article{osti_1327261,
title = {No-go for partially massless spin-2 Yang-Mills},
author = {Garcia-Saenz, Sebastian and Hinterbichler, Kurt and Joyce, Austin and Mitsou, Ermis and Rosen, Rachel A.},
abstractNote = {There are various no-go results forbidding self-interactions for a single partially massless spin-2 field. Given the photon-like structure of the linear partially massless field, it is natural to ask whether a multiplet of such fields can interact under an internal Yang-Mills like extension of the partially massless symmetry. In this paper, we give two arguments that such a partially massless Yang-Mills theory does not exist. The first is that there is no Yang-Mills like non-abelian deformation of the partially massless symmetry, and the second is that cubic vertices with the appropriate structure constants do not exist.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP02(2016)043},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 2,
volume = 2016,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Fri Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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