Quantum Discontinuity between Zero and Infinitesimal Graviton Mass with aTerm
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- 5 July 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 87 (4), 041301
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.87.041301
Abstract
We show that the recently demonstrated absence of the usual discontinuity for massive spin 2 with a term is an artifact of the tree approximation, and that the discontinuity reappears at one loop.
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