Published July 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Dual actions for massless, partially-massless and massive gravitons in (A)dS

  • 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 n>3. 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.2018.05.046

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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

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