Duality invariance in massive theories

Adel Khoudeir and David Sierra
Phys. Rev. D 91, 064015 – Published 5 March 2015

Abstract

In this work, we show that duality symmetry can be implemented for massive theories at the level of the action, whenever we can formulate appropriate gauge invariant actions. For a massive vectorial field, we use a known gauge invariant description, while for a massive graviton, we introduce a novel gauge invariant action in order to show duality invariance.

  • Received 2 January 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.064015

© 2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Adel Khoudeir*

  • Centro de Física Fundamental, Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida 5101, Venezuela

David Sierra

  • Laboratorio de Astronomía y Física Teǿrica, LAFT, Facultad Experimental de Ciencias, Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo 4001, Venezuela

  • *adel@ula.ve
  • dsierra@fec.luz.edu.ve

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Vol. 91, Iss. 6 — 15 March 2015

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