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Dynamics of 3-Forms in Seven Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-11-22 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We continue to study a certain dynamical theory of 3-forms in seven dimensions, which can be viewed as a non-linear 7D analog of the 3D Abelian Chern-Simons theory. We perform the 6+1 split and show that the theory propagates 3 degrees of freedom. We also study the dimensional reduction on S3. We find the resulting theory to be a variant of 4D scalar-tensor theory of gravity.

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@article{arxiv.1705.01741,
  title  = {Dynamics of 3-Forms in Seven Dimensions},
  author = {Kirill Krasnov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.01741},
  year   = {2017}
}

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25 pages, no figures

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