Abstract
Following Antoniadis and Tomboulis [1] we consider the gauge behaviour of the massive spin-2 ghost pole that appears in the propagator of higher derivative gravity theories. In contradistinction to [1] we observe that the pair of complex conjugate poles that appear in the resummed propagator are gauge independent. They are sedentary, that is, under a change in the gauge parameter they do not move. We derive this result using the ubiquitous Nielsen identities [11].
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