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arxiv: 1804.05588 · v3 · pith:BWCUBHL7new · submitted 2018-04-16 · ✦ hep-th

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

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keywords masslessdualmassivepartially-masslessdualitygravitonsleveltreatment
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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.

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