Relations between Positivity, Localization and Degrees of Freedom

Resumo

The problem of accounting for the degrees of freedom in passing from
massive spin to massless helicity degrees of freedom and its inverse, the
``fattening'' of massless tensor fields to their massive $s=\left\vert
h\right\vert $ counterparts, are solved using ``string-localized
fields''.

This approach allows to overcome the Weinberg-Witten impediment against the
existence of massless $\left\vert h\right\vert \geq 2$ energy-momentum
tensors, and to replace the van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov discontinuity concerning,
e.g., very light gravitons, by a continuous limit $m\to0$.

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