'Good propagation' and duality invariance constraints on scalar, gauge vector and gravity actions

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1999-03-01

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Deser, Stanley
McCarthy, Jim
Sarıoğlu, Bahtiyar Özgür

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We present some consequences of non-anomalous propagation requirements on various massless fields. Among the models of nonlinear electrodynamics we show that only the Maxwell and Born-Infeld models also obey duality invariance. Separately we show that, for actions depending only on the F-mu nu(2) invariant, the permitted models have L similar to root 1 + F-2. We also characterize acceptable vector-scalar systems. Finally, we find that wide classes of gravity models share with the Einstein model the null nature of their characteristics surfaces.

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Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47226

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CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

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https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/16/3/015

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S. Deser, J. McCarthy, and B. Ö. Sarıoğlu, “‘Good propagation’ and duality invariance constraints on scalar, gauge vector and gravity actions,” CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY, pp. 841–847, 1999, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47226.