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We present a simplified formulation of massive gravity where the Higgs fields have quadratic kinetic term. This new formulation allows us to prove in a very explicit way that all massive gravity theories considered so far inevitably have Boulware-Deser ghost in non-trivial fluctuations of background metric.
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Chamseddine, A.H., Mukhanov, V. Massive gravity simplified: a quadratic action. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 91 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2011)091
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