Dual actions for massless, partially-massless and massive gravitons in (A)dS
Creators
- 1. Groupe de Mécanique et Gravitation, Unit of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Université de Mons – UMONS, 20 place du Parc, 7000 Mons (Belgium)
- 2. Institut für Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, 8093 Zürich (Switzerland)
- 3. Departamento de Física de Altas Energías, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares – UNAM, Circuito Exterior s/n, Cd. Universitaria, 04510 Ciudad de México (Mexico)
Description
We provide a unified treatment of electric–magnetic duality, at the action level and with manifest Lorentz invariance, for massive, massless as well as partially-massless gravitons propagating in maximally symmetric spacetimes of any dimension . For massive and massless fields, we complete previous analyses that use parent-action techniques by giving dual descriptions that enable direct counting of physical degrees of freedom in the flat and massless limit. The same treatment is extended to the partially-massless case, where the duality has been previously discussed in covariant form only at the level of the equations of motion. The nature of the dual graviton is therefore clarified for all values of the mass and of the cosmological constant.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.05.046Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.05.046;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1804.05588v3;
- PII
- S0370269318304106;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. Section B
- Journal Volume
- 782
- Journal Page Range
- p. 285-290
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBAJ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 51013349
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANTI DE SITTER SPACE; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; DE SITTER SPACE; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DUALITY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GRAVITONS; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; SYMMETRY
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; RADIATIONS; SPACE
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.