Duality and Higher Buscher Rules in p‐Form Gauge Theory and Linearized Gravity

DOI10.1002/PROP.202000135arXiv2012.08220MaRDI QIDQ6088077FDOQ6088077

Authors: Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis, Georgios Karagiannis, Arash Ranjbar 

Publication date: 16 November 2023

Published in: Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We perform an in-depth analysis of the transformation rules under duality for couplings of theories containing multiple scalars, $p$-form gauge fields, linearized gravitons or $(p,1)$ mixed symmetry tensors. Following a similar reasoning to the derivation of the Buscher rules for string background fields under T-duality, we show that the couplings for all classes of aforementioned multi-field theories transform according to one of two sets of duality rules. These sets comprise the ordinary Buscher rules and their higher counterpart; this is a generic feature of multi-field theories in spacetime dimensions where the field strength and its dual are of the same degree. Our analysis takes into account topological theta terms and generalized $B$-fields, whose behavior under duality is carefully tracked. For a 1-form or a graviton in 4D, this reduces to the inversion of the complexified coupling or generalized metric under electric/magnetic duality. Moreover, we write down an action for linearized gravity in the presence of $heta$-term from which we obtain previously suggested on-shell duality and double duality relations. This also provides an explanation for the origin of theta in the gravitational duality relations as a specific additional sector of the linearized gravity action.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08220

zbMATH Keywords

gravityhigher gauge theoryelectromagnetic dualitygraded geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

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