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No van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov Discontinuity for Supergravity in AdS Space

arXiv:hep-th/0011278 · doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00023-5

Abstract

Adding explicit mass terms for the spin 2 and spin 3/2 field of N=1 anti-de Sitter supergravity, the limit M --> 0 for these mass terms is smooth: there is no van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov mass discontinuity in the propagators when the cosmological constant is non-vanishing.

November 2000, 7pp, misprints and typos corrected

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