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We revisit the problem of building consistent interactions for a multiplet of partially massless spin-2 fields in (anti-)de Sitter space. After rederiving and strengthening the existing no-go result on the impossibility of Yang-Mills type…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-26 Nicolas Boulanger , Cédric Deffayet , Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Lucas Traina

Galilei-invariant equations for massless fields are obtained via contractions of relativistic wave equations. It is shown that the collection of non-equivalent Galilei-invariant wave equations for massless fields with spin equal 1 and 0 is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-02 J. Niederle , A. G. Nikitin

We review the general formalism of duality rotations for $\cal N$-extended (super)conformal gauge multiplets of arbitrary (super)spin in four dimensions, with ${\cal N} \geq 0$. Self-dual models for a vector field (${\cal N}=0$) and for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-05 Sergei M. Kuzenko

We develop a general formalism of duality rotations for bosonic conformal spin-$s$ gauge fields, with $s\geq 2$, in a conformally flat four-dimensional spacetime. In the $s=1$ case this formalism is equivalent to the theory of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Emmanouil S. N. Raptakis

Two different massive gauge invariant spin-one theories in $3+1$ dimensions, one Stuckelberg formulation and the other `$B^{\wedge}F$' theory, with Kalb-Ramond field are shown to be related by duality. This is demonstrated by gauging the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Harikumar , M. Sivakumar

We formulate a symmetry principle on the basis of the duality of electric and magnetic fields and apply it to dispersion forces. Within the context of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics, we rigorously establish duality invariance for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-04 Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Stefan Scheel , Hassan Safari , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

We analyze the spectrum of the exactly duality and gauge invariant higher-derivative double field theory. While this theory is based on a chiral CFT and does not correspond to a standard string theory, our analysis illuminates a number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-20 Olaf Hohm , Usman Naseer , Barton Zwiebach

We extend the notion of the Higuchi bound and partial masslessness to ghost-free nonlinear bimetric theories. This can be achieved in a simple way by first considering linear massive spin-2 perturbations around maximally symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-24 S. F. Hassan , Angnis Schmidt-May , Mikael von Strauss

In this work, we show that duality symmetry can be implemented for massive theories at the level of the action, whenever we can formulate appropriates gauge invariant actions. For a massive vectorial field, we use a known gauge invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-11 Adel Khoudeir , David Sierra

A general affine connection has enough degrees of freedom to describe the classical gravitational and electromagnetic fields in the metric-affine formulation of gravity. The gravitational field is represented in the Lagrangian by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-03-03 Nikodem J. Poplawski

We prove that a scalar quantum field theory defined on noncommutative Minkowski spacetime with noncommuting momentum coordinates is covariant with respect to the UV/IR duality which exchanges coordinates and momenta. The proof is based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-18 Andre Fischer , Richard J. Szabo

Duality symmetries are discussed for non-linear gauge theories of (n-1)-th rank antisymmetric tensor fields in general even dimensions d=2n. When there are M field strengths and no scalar fields, the duality symmetry groups should be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Araki , Y. Tanii

Using unfolded formulation of free equations for massless fields of all spins we obtain explicit form of higher-spin conformal conserved charges bilinear in 4d massless fields of arbitrary spins.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 O. A. Gelfond , E. D. Skvortsov , M. A. Vasiliev

We discuss under what conditions the duality between electric and magnetic fields is a valid symmetry of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics. It is shown that Maxwell's equations in the absence of free charges satisfy duality invariance on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-14 Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Stefan Scheel

We study electric-magnetic duality in Lorentz invariant symmetric tensor gauge theories, where immobile charged particles - fractons - arise due to the generalized current conservation $\partial_{\mu} \partial_{\nu} J^{\mu \nu} = 0$ and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-07 Ryuki Makino , Shin Sasaki , Kenta Shiozawa

We develop a new twistorial field formulation of a massless infinite spin particle. Unlike our previous approach arXiv:1805.09706, the quantization of such a world-line infinite spin particle model is carried without any gauge fixing. As a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-14 I. L. Buchbinder , S. Fedoruk , A. P. Isaev

We extend the notion of self-duality to spaces built from a set of representations of the Lorentz group with bosonic or fermionic behaviour, not having the traditional spin-one upper-bound of super Minkowski space. The generalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Devchand , J. Nuyts

We review the general theory of duality rotations which, in four dimensions, exchange electric with magnetic fields. Necessary and sufficient conditions in order for a theory to have duality symmetry are established. A nontrivial example is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Paolo Aschieri , Sergio Ferrara , Bruno Zumino

Cubic interactions of massive and partially-massless totally-symmetric higher-spin fields in any constant-curvature background of dimension greater than three are investigated. Making use of the ambient-space formalism, the consistency…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Euihun Joung , Luca Lopez , Massimo Taronna

Double field theory provides T-duality covariant generalized tensors that are natural extensions of the scalar and Ricci curvatures of Riemannian geometry. We search for a similar extension of the Riemann curvature tensor by developing a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Olaf Hohm , Barton Zwiebach