Sunday, 8 April 2018

general relativity - Why can't a spin 0 graviton couple to a photon?



I read that a spin 0 graviton can't couple to traceless energy, such as a photon, in the introduction in the book The Feynman Lectures On Gravitation. Why is this true? What does it mean for a particle's energy to be "traceless"?


This has been my reference all along.


A spin 0 graviton can only couple to the trace of energy, and not to traceless energy.




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