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Off-shell duality invariance of Schwarzschild perturbation theory

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-11-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We explore the duality invariance of the Maxwell and linearized Einstein-Hilbert actions on a non-rotating black hole background. On shell these symmetries are electric-magnetic duality and Chandrasekhar duality, respectively. Off shell they lead to conserved quantities; we demonstrate that one of the consequences of these conservation laws is that even- and odd-parity metric perturbations have equal Love numbers. Along the way we derive an action principle for the Fackerell-Ipser equation and Teukolsky-Starobinsky identities in electromagnetism.

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@article{arxiv.2310.04502,
  title  = {Off-shell duality invariance of Schwarzschild perturbation theory},
  author = {Adam R. Solomon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.04502},
  year   = {2023}
}

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38+7 pages. v2: verson published in Particles (special issue "Selected Papers from Testing Gravity 2023")