No van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov discontinuity for supergravity in AdS space

被引:20
作者
Grassi, PA
van Nieuwenhuizen, P
机构
[1] NYU, Dept Phys, New York, NY 10003 USA
[2] CN Yang Inst Theoret Phys, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00023-5
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
Adding explicit mass terms for the spin 2 and spin 3/2 field of N = 1 anti-de Sitter supergravity, the limit M-2 --> 0 for these mass terms is smooth: there is no van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov mass discontinuity in the propagators when the cosmological constant is non-vanishing. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
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