Causality in gravity, higher spins and the AdS/CFT duality

• Applicant: Dr. Gustavo Lucena Gómez, since 10/2016
• Subject Area: Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Fields
• Term: from 2015 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 298973791

• Final Report Year: 2018

Final Report Abstract

The project constitutes a surprise in itself, at least for us! We wanted to prove that massive gravity was consistent in some way, and ended up proving the opposite! We managed to do this because of various reasons: first of all, because researchers from slightly different subfields interacted to think about this problem, and second, because we had this grant. This grant gave us, on the one hand, a “reason” to work on these issues together and, on the other hand, the practical and financial capacity to bring together the necessary people required to discuss these issues (and in fact this goes beyond the list of my co-authors).

Publications

• Causality constraints on massive gravity, Phys. Rev. D 96, 084007 (2017)
  Xián O. Camanho, Gustavo Lucena Gómez, Rakibur Rahman