Thursday, January 24, 2013

1301.5496 (Claudio Bunster et al.)

Duality-invariant bimetric formulation of linearized gravity    [PDF]

Claudio Bunster, Marc Henneaux, Sergio Hörtner
A formulation of linearized gravity which is manifestly invariant under electric-magnetic duality rotations in the internal space of the metric and its dual, and which contains both metrics as basic variables (rather than the corresponding prepotentials), is derived. In this bimetric formulation, the variables have a more immediate geometrical significance, but the action is non-local in space, contrary to what occurs in the prepotential formulation. More specifically, one finds that: (i) the kinetic term is non-local in space (but local in time); (ii) the Hamiltonian is local in space and in time; (iii) the variables are subject to two Hamiltonian constraints, one for each metric.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5496

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