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Seminarvortrag

"Partially-massless spin-2 fields. An interacting theory in 4D "
Date: 01/28/2020, 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Category: Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Seminar
Location: Hubland Süd, Geb. P1 (Physik), SE 5
Organizer: Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik III
Speaker: Nicolas Boulanger - Universite de Mons, Belgium
We revisit the problem of building consistent interactions for a multiplet of partially massless spin-2 fields 
in (anti-)de Sitter space. After rederiving and strengthening the existing no-go result on the impossibility of 
Yang-Mills type non-abelian deformations of the partially massless gauge algebra, we prove the uniqueness 
of the cubic interaction vertex and field-dependent gauge transformation that generalize the structures known 
from single-field analyses. Unlike in the case of one partially massless field, however, we show that for two or 
more particle species the cubic deformations can be made consistent at the complete non-linear level, albeit 
at the expense of allowing for negative relative signs between kinetic terms, making our new theory akin to 
conformal gravity. Our construction thus provides the first example of an interacting theory containing only 
partially massless fields. 

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