Mass for the graviton
arXiv:gr-qc/9705051 · doi:10.1023/A:1026611026766
Abstract
Can we give the graviton a mass? Does it even make sense to speak of a massive graviton? In this essay I shall answer these questions in the affirmative. I shall outline an alternative to Einstein Gravity that satisfies the Equivalence Principle and automatically passes all classical weak-field tests (GM/r approx 10^{-6}). It also passes medium-field tests (GM/r approx 1/5), but exhibits radically different strong-field behaviour (GM/r approx 1). Black holes in the usual sense do not exist in this theory, and large-scale cosmology is divorced from the distribution of matter. To do all this we have to sacrifice something: the theory exhibits {*prior geometry*}, and depends on a non-dynamical background metric.
12 pages, plain LaTeX. Major revisions: (1) Inconsistency in equations of motion fixed. (2) More discussion of the problems associated with quantization. (3) Many more references added
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