We compare the massive Kalb-Ramond and Proca fields with a quartic self-interaction and show that the same strong coupling scale is present in both theories. In the Proca theory, the longitudinal mode enters the strongly coupled regime beyond this scale, while the two transverse modes propagate further and survive in the massless limit. In contrast, in case of the massive Kalb-Ramond field, the two transverse modes become strongly coupled beyond the Vainshtein scale, while the pseudo-scalar mode remains in the weak coupling regime and survives in the massless limit. This indicates a contradiction with the numerous claims in the literature (see eg. [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21]) that these theories are dual to each other.

We study the massive Yang-Mills theory in which the mass term is added by hand. The standard perturbative approach suggests that the massless limit of this theory is not smooth. We confirm that this issue is related to the existence of additional degrees of freedom, which are absent in the massless theory. Nevertheless, we show that the longitudinal modes become strongly coupled at the Vainshtein scale, which coincides with the scale of the unitarity violation. Beyond this scale, they decouple from the remaining degrees of freedom, and the massless theory is restored up to small corrections. From here, it follows that the apparent discontinuity in the massless limit is only an artefact of the perturbation theory. The massless limit of massive Yang-Mills theory is smooth, as originally proposed in [21].

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