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Title: No-go for partially massless spin-2 Yang-Mills

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
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  1. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
  2. Perimeter Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON (Canada)
  3. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
  4. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States); Perimeter Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON (Canada)
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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.

Research Organization:
Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0011941
OSTI ID:
1327261
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2016, Issue 2; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 17 works
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Recent developments in bimetric theory text January 2015
Looking for partially-massless gravity text January 2019

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