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Duality in Einstein's Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-11-15 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that the Einstein equations in the vacuum are invariant under an SO(2)SO(2) duality symmetry which rotates the curvature 2-form into its tangent space Hodge dual. Akin to electric-magnetic duality in gauge theory, the duality operation maps classical solutions into each other. As an example, we demonstrate that the Kerr solution is non-linearly mapped by duality into Kerr-Taub-NUT.

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@article{arxiv.2205.05752,
  title  = {Duality in Einstein's Gravity},
  author = {Uri Kol},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.05752},
  year   = {2023}
}

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