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Dimensional reduction as a method to obtain dual theories for massive spin two in arbitray dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

Using the parent Lagrangian method together with a dimensional reduction from DD to (D1)(D-1) dimensions we construct dual theories for massive spin two fields in arbitrary dimensions in terms of a mixed symmetry tensor TA[A1A2...AD2]T_{A[A_{1}A_{2}... A_{D-2}]}. Our starting point is the well studied massless parent action in dimension DD. The resulting massive Stueckelberg-like parent actions in (D1)(D-1) dimensions inherits all the gauge symmetries of the original massless action and can be gauge fixed in two alternative ways, yielding the possibility of having either a parent action with a symmetric or a non-symmetric Fierz-Pauli field eABe_{AB}. Even though the dual sector in terms of the standard spin two field includes only the symmetrical part e{AB}e_{\{AB\}} in both cases, these two possibilities yield different results in terms of the alternative dual field TA[A1A2...AD2]T_{A[A_{1}A_{2}... A_{D-2}]}. In particular, the non-symmetric case reproduces the Freund-Curtright action as the dual to the massive spin two field action in four dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.0806.4558,
  title  = {Dimensional reduction as a method to obtain dual theories for massive spin two in arbitray dimensions},
  author = {A. Khoudeir and R. Montemayor and Luis F. Urrutia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.4558},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

14 pages, no figures, RevTex 4. Some clarifying comments and references have been added