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We study the gauge/gravity duality for theories with four dimensional ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetries. We consider the large class of generalized quiver field theories constructed recently by one of us (D.G.). These field theories can also be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Davide Gaiotto , Juan Maldacena

The double copy relates scattering amplitudes and classical solutions in non-abelian gauge theories and gravity. As such, it is usually expressed in the conventional second-order formalisms in both theories corresponding to standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-29 Nathan Moynihan , Michael L. Reichenberg Ashby , Chris D. White

We consider the reduction of the duality invariant approach to M-theory by a U-duality group valued Scherk-Schwarz twist. The result is to produce potentials for gauged supergravities that are normally associated with non-geometric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 David S. Berman , Edvard T. Musaev , Daniel C. Thompson

Deformations of maximal supergravity theories induced by gauging non-abelian subgroups of the duality group reveal the presence of charged M-theory degrees of freedom that are not necessarily contained in supergravity. The relation with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-19 Bernard de Wit , Hermann Nicolai , Henning Samtleben

We provide a unified treatment of electric-magnetic duality, at the action level and with manifest Lorentz invariance, for massive, massless as well as partially-massless gravitons propagating in maximally symmetric spacetimes of any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-13 Nicolas Boulanger , Andrea Campoleoni , Ignacio Cortese

Extended Field Theories include Double Field Theory (DFT) and Exceptional Field Theory, which are respectively the T- and U-duality covariant formulations of the supergravity limit of String Theory and M-theory. Extended Field Theories do…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-24 Luigi Alfonsi

Gauging and duality transformations, two of the most useful tools in many-body physics, are shown to be equivalent up to constant depth quantum circuits in the case of one-dimensional quantum lattice models. This is demonstrated by making…

The free graviton theory given by linearising Einstein's theory has a dual formulation in terms of a dual graviton field. The dual graviton theory has two gauge invariances giving rise to two conserved charges, while the ADM charges of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-07 Chris Hull , Ulf Lindström , Maxwell L. Velásquez Cotini Hutt

Noncommutative geometric construction of gravity in the two sheeted spacetime can be viewed as a discretized version of a Kaluza-Klein theory. In this paper, we show that it is possible to incorporate the nonabelian gauge fields in the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-25 Viet Ai Nguyen , Du Tien Pham

Double Field Theory describes the NS-NS sector of string theory and lives on a doubled spacetime. The theory has a local gauge symmetry generated by a generalization of the Lie derivative for doubled coordinates. For the action to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-06 David Geissbühler

Gauge fields of mixed symmetry, corresponding to arbitrary representations of the local Lorentz group of the background spacetime, arise as massive modes in compactifications of superstring theories. We describe bosonic gauge field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul de Medeiros

We discuss linearized gravity from the point of view of a gauge theory. In (3+1)-dimensions our analysis allows to consider linearized gravity in the context of the MacDowell-Mansouri formalism. Our observations may be of particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Nieto

We give an alternative description of the physical content of general relativity that does not require a Lorentz invariant spacetime. Instead, we find that gravity admits a dual description in terms of a theory where local size is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-30 Henrique Gomes , Sean Gryb , Tim Koslowski

Duality symmetries of supergravity theories are powerful tools to restrict the number of possible actions, to link different dimensions and number of supersymmetries and might help to control quantisation. (Hodge-Dirac-)Dualisation of gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Julia

Finite gauge transformations in double field theory can be defined by the exponential of generalized Lie derivatives. We interpret these transformations as `generalized coordinate transformations' in the doubled space by proposing and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Olaf Hohm , Barton Zwiebach

In this work a study of the gravity is made using Einstein's equation in the post-Newtonian approach. This is a method to linearise the General Relativity indicated to treat non-relativistic objects. It enables us to construct, from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-29 I. C. Jardim , R. R. Landim

We review the status of electric/magnetic duality for free gauge field theories in four space-time dimensions with emphasis on Maxwell theory and linearized Einstein gravity. Using the theory of vector and tensor spherical harmonics, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-15 Ioannis Bakas

The general second-order massive field equations for arbitrary positive integer spin in three spacetime dimensions, and their "self-dual" limit to first-order equations, are shown to be equivalent to gauge-invariant higher-derivative field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-22 Eric A. Bergshoeff , Olaf Hohm , Paul K. Townsend

Lorentz and diffeomorphism violations are studied in linearized gravity using effective field theory. A classification of all gauge-invariant and gauge-violating terms is given. The exact covariant dispersion relation for gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-23 Alan Kostelecky , Matthew Mewes

This work is an application of the second order gauge theory for the Lorentz group, where a description of the gravitational interaction is obtained which includes derivatives of the curvature. We analyze the form of the second field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-24 R. R. Cuzinatto , C. A. M. de Melo , L. G. Medeiros , P. J. Pompeia