Universal limits on massless high-spin particles

M. Porrati

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.065016

Universal limits on massless high-spin particles

M. Porrati

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Abstract

We present a model-independent argument showing that massless particles interacting with gravity in a Minkowski background space can have at most spin two. This result is proven by extending a famous theorem due to Weinberg and Witten to theories that do not possess a gauge-invariant stress-energy tensor.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	065016
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	78
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.065016
State	Published - Sep 11 2008

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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