Quantum discontinuity for massive spin 3 / 2 with a Λ term

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  • James T. Liu
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We show that the recently demonstrated absence of the van Dam-VeltmanZakharov discontinuity for massive spin 3/2 with a Λ term is an artifact of the tree approximation, and that the discontinuity reappears at one loop. As a numerical check on the calculation, we rederive the vanishing of the oneloop beta function for D = 11 supergravity on AdS4×S level-by-level in the Kaluza-Klein tower. Typeset using REVTEX Email addresses: {mduff, jimliu, hsati}@umich.edu

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تاریخ انتشار 2002