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Symmetries and Compactifications of (4,0) Conformal Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-02-03 v1

Abstract

The free (4,0) superconformal theory in 6 dimensions and its toroidal dimensional reductions are studied. The reduction to four dimensions on a 2-torus has an SL(2,Z)SL(2,\Z) duality symmetry that acts non-trivially on the linearised gravity sector, interchanging the linearised Einstein equations and Bianchi identities and giving a self-duality between strong and weak coupling regimes. The possibility of this extending to an interacting form of the theory is discussed and implications for the non-geometric picture of gravity that could emerge are considered.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0011215,
  title  = {Symmetries and Compactifications of (4,0) Conformal Gravity},
  author = {C. M. Hull},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0011215},
  year   = {2010}
}

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37 pages