Publicação: Note on massless and partially massless spin-2 particles in a curved background via a nonsymmetric tensor
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In the last few years, we have seen an increase interest on gravitational waves due to recent and striking experimental results confirming Einstein's general relativity once more. From the field theory point of view, gravity describes the propagation of self-interacting massless spin-2 particles. They can be identified with metric perturbations about a given background metric. Since the metric is a symmetric tensor, the massless spin-2 particles present in the Einstein-Hilbert (massless Fierz-Pauli) theory are naturally described by a symmetric rank-2 tensor. However, this is not the only possible consistent massless spin-2 theory at linearized level. In particular, if we add a mass term, a new one parameter (a1) family of models L(a1) shows up. They consistently describe massive spin-2 particles about Einstein spaces in terms of a nonsymmetric rank-2 tensor. Here we investigate the massless version of L(a1) in a curved background. In the case a1=-1/12, we show that the massless spin-2 particles consistently propagate, at linearized level, in maximally symmetric spaces. A similar result is obtained otherwise (a1≠-1/12) where we have a nonsymmetric scalar-tensor massless model. The case of partially massless nonsymmetric models is also investigated.
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Physical Review D, v. 99, n. 2, 2019.
