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The Graded Differential Geometry of Mixed Symmetry Tensors

Mathematical Physics 2019-06-26 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We show how the theory of Z2n\mathbb{Z}_2^n -manifolds - which are a non-trivial generalisation of supermanifolds - may be useful in a geometrical approach to mixed symmetry tensors such as the dual graviton. The geometric aspects of such tensor fields on both flat and curved space-times are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1806.04048,
  title  = {The Graded Differential Geometry of Mixed Symmetry Tensors},
  author = {Andrew James Bruce and Eduardo Ibarguengoytia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.04048},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

9 pages. Several changes as compared with earlier versions. In particular, we have added "supersymmetries" of mixed symmetry tensors and have included a section on mixed symmetry tensors with values in vector bundles