Published March 12, 2013
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Acausality of Massive Gravity
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Deser, S.
- Waldron, A.
Abstract
We show, by analyzing its characteristics, that the ghost-free, 5 degree of freedom, Wess-Zumino massive gravity model admits superluminal shock wave solutions and thus is acausal. Ironically, this pathology arises from the very constraint that removes the (sixth) Boulware-Deser ghost mode.
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© 2013 American Physical Society. Received 23 December 2012; published 12 March 2013. We thank M. Sandora for a very useful discussion; A.W. acknowledges the hospitality of the Lauritsen Lab, Caltech. S. D. was supported in part by NSF Grant No. PHY-1064302 and DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-164 92ER40701.Attached Files
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