Manifest Duality Invariance for the Partially Massless Graviton
High Energy Physics - Theory
2026-05-28 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
For a special value of the mass, a massive graviton on de Sitter space acquires an enhanced scalar gauge symmetry, and is called partially massless. The partially massless graviton possesses a duality invariance akin to electromagnetic duality. We display this duality in its manifestly local and covariant form, in which it acts to interchange the first order field equations and Bianchi identities of a gauge invariant field strength.
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@article{arxiv.1409.3565,
title = {Manifest Duality Invariance for the Partially Massless Graviton},
author = {Kurt Hinterbichler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.3565},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
14 pages. v3 typos corrected