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Dualities Among Massive, Partially Massless and Shift Symmetric Fields on (A)dS

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-07-02 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We catalog all the electromagnetic-like dualities that exist between free dynamical bosonic fields of arbitrary symmetry type and mass on (anti-) de Sitter space in all dimensions, including dualities among the partially massless and shift symmetric fields. This generalizes to all these field types the well known fact that a massless pp-form is dual to a massless (Dp2)(D-p-2)-form in DD spacetime dimensions. In the process, we describe the structure of the Weyl modules (the spaces of local operators linear in the fields and their derivative relations) for all the massive, partially massless and shift symmetric fields.

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@article{arxiv.2402.16938,
  title  = {Dualities Among Massive, Partially Massless and Shift Symmetric Fields on (A)dS},
  author = {Kurt Hinterbichler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.16938},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

70 pages. v2 several statements corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-28T15:00:55.559Z