A note on spin two fields in curved backgrounds

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dc.creatorDeser, S.
dc.creatorHenneaux, M.
dc.date2006-11-30
dc.date2007-02-07
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:43:06Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:43:06Z
dc.descriptionWe reconsider the consistency constraints on a free massless symmetric, rank 2, tensor field in a background and confirm that they uniquely require it to be the linear deviation about (cosmological) Einstein gravity. Neither adding non-minimal higher derivative terms nor changing the gauge transformations by allowing terms non-analytic in the cosmological constant alters this fact.
dc.description5 pages - Minor misprints corrected - Version accepted by Class. Quant. Grav
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0611157
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0611157
dc.identifierClass.Quant.Grav.24:1683-1686,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0264-9381/24/6/N01
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/201119
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleA note on spin two fields in curved backgrounds
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