Proof of the Exact Masslessness of Gravitons
- 9 July 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 43 (2) , 91-92
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.43.91
Abstract
Based on the manifestly covariant canonical formalism of quantum gravity, it is proved that gravitons must be exactly massless.Keywords
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