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Shinji Hamamoto

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Nonlinear completion of massive gravity of the Fierz-Pauli type

A possible nonlinear completion of massive gravity of the Fierz-Pauli type is proposed. The theory describes a system consisting of a massive tensor field of the Fierz-Pauli type and an additional massive vector field. Massless limit as well as flat-spacetime limit can be taken smoothly. Constructing a nonlinear version of the physical-state condition which drives an extra scalar ghost from physical states is still unsettled.

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Gauge Theory of Massive Tensor Field II --- Covariant Expressions ---

Covariant forms are given to a gauge theory of massive tensor field. This is accomplished by introducing another auxiliary field of scalar type to the system composed of a symmetric tensor field and an auxiliary field of vector type. The situation is compared to the case of the theory in which a tensor field describes a scalar ghost as well as an ordinary massive tensor. In this case only an auxiliary vector field is needed to give covariant expressions for the gauge theory.

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Massless Limits of Massive Tensor Fields

In order to construct a massive tensor theory with a smooth massless limit, we apply two kinds of gauge-fixing procedures, Nakanishi's one and the BRS one, to two models of massive tensor field. The first is of the Fierz-Pauli (FP) type, which describes a pure massive tensor field; the other is of the additional-scalar-ghost (ASG) type, which includes a scalar ghost in addition to an ordinary tensor field. It is shown that Nakanishi's procedure can eliminate massless singularities in both two models, while the BRS procedure regularizes the ASG model only. The BRS-regularized ASG model is most promising in constructing a complete nonlinear theory.

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Higher Derivatives and Canonical Formalisms

Path integral expressions for three canonical formalisms -- Ostrogradski's one, constrained one and generalized one -- of higher-derivative theories are given. For each fomalism we consider both nonsingular and singular cases. It is shown that three formalisms share the same path integral expressions. In paticular it is pointed out that the generalized canonical formalism is connected with the constrained one by a canonical transformation.

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Gauge Theory of Massive Tensor Field

In order to construct a massive tensor theory with a smooth massless limit, we apply the Batalin-Fradkin algorithm to the ordinary massive tensor theory. By introducing an auxiliary vector field all second-class constraints are converted into first-class ones. We find a gauge-fixing condition which produces a massive tensor theory of desirable property.

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