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A note on "symmetric" vielbeins in bimetric, massive, perturbative and non perturbative gravities
We consider a manifold endowed with two different vielbeins
and corresponding to two different metrics and
. Such a situation arises generically in bimetric or massive
gravity (including the recently discussed version of de Rham, Gabadadze and
Tolley), as well as in perturbative quantum gravity where one vielbein
parametrizes the background space-time and the other the dynamical degrees of
freedom. We determine the conditions under which the relation can be
imposed (or the "Deser-van Nieuwenhuizen" gauge chosen). We clarify and correct
various statements which have been made about this issue.Comment: 20 pages. Section 7, prop. 6 and 7. added. Some results made more
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Structured light: Optomechanical tomography
Owing to the extreme sensitivity of a microscopic cantilever to optical forces, it is possible to uncover the fine structure of optical momenta and associated mechanical effects in evanescent fields