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More on dual actions for massive spin-2 particles

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-08-26 v2

Abstract

Here we start from a dual version of Vasiliev's first order action for massless spin-2 particles (linearized first order Einstein-Hilbert) and derive, via Kaluza-Klein dimensional reduction from D+1D+1 to DD dimensions, a set of dual massive spin-2 models. This set includes the massive "BR" model, a spin-2 analogue of the spin-1 Cremmer-Scherk model. In our approach the linearized Riemann curvature emerges from a solution of a functional constraint. In D=2+1D=2+1 the BR model can be written as a linearized version of a new bimetric model for massive gravitons. We also have a new massive spin-2 model, in arbitrary dimensions, invariant under linearized diffeomorphisms. It is given in terms of a non symmetric rank-2 tensor and a mixed symmetry tensor.

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@article{arxiv.2003.12658,
  title  = {More on dual actions for massive spin-2 particles},
  author = {D. Dalmazi and A. L. R. dos Santos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.12658},
  year   = {2020}
}

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