Publication: Unitarity of higher derivative spin-3 models
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The fourth order in derivatives New Massive Gravity model NMG, describes a massive spin-2 particle in D=2+1. At the linearized level a proof of unitarity necessarily implies that the generalization to higher dimensions includes non-unitary massless spin-2 modes. The linearized version of NMG is dual to the Fierz-Pauli model FP. Here we examine the unitarity of higher derivative spin-3 models, analogous to the NMG, dual to the Singh-Hagen model SH. We find that the same kind of restriction on the dimension of the space also happens in this case, and the models are physical only in D=2+1.
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D=2+1, Higher-derivative, Singh–Hagen, Spin-3, Unitarity
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Annals of Physics, v. 414.
