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arxiv: gr-qc/0109091 · v3 · submitted 2001-09-27 · 🌀 gr-qc · hep-th

Newtonian Counterparts of Spin 2 Massless Discontinuities

classification 🌀 gr-qc hep-th
keywords discontinuitieslambdanewtonianspinbackgroundsbehaviourconstantconventional
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Massive spin 2 theories in flat or cosmological ($\Lambda \ne 0$) backgrounds are subject to discontinuities as the masses tend to zero. We show and explain physically why their Newtonian limits do not inherit this behaviour. On the other hand, conventional ``Newtonian cosmology'', where $\Lambda $ is a constant source of the potential, displays discontinuities: e.g. for any finite range, $\Lambda$ can be totally removed.

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