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PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 715, Issue 4-5, Pages 335-339Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.07.018
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Massive gravity
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We address some recent concerns about the absence of the Boulware-Deser ghost in the Stuckelberg formulation of nonlinear massive gravity. First we provide general arguments for why any ghost analysis in the Stuckelberg formulation has to agree with existing consistency proofs that have been carried out without using Stuckelberg fields. We then demonstrate the absence of the ghost at the completely nonlinear level in the Stuckelberg formulation of the minimal massive gravity action. The constraint that removes the ghost field and the associated secondary constraint that eliminates its conjugate momentum are computed explicitly, confirming the consistency of the theory in the Stuckelberg formulation. (c) 2012 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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