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Generalised symmetries in linear gravity
Imperial Coll London, Blackett Lab, Prince Consort Rd, London SW7 2AZ, England..
Imperial Coll London, Blackett Lab, Prince Consort Rd, London SW7 2AZ, England..
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Theoretical Physics. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Mathematics. Imperial Coll London, Blackett Lab, Prince Consort Rd, London SW7 2AZ, England..ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7149-5045
2025 (English)In: Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), ISSN 1126-6708, E-ISSN 1029-8479, no 4, article id 46Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Linearised gravity has a global symmetry under which the graviton is shifted by a symmetric tensor satisfying a certain flatness condition. There is also a dual symmetry that can be associated with a global shift symmetry of the dual graviton theory. The corresponding conserved charges are shown to satisfy a centrally-extended algebra. We discuss the gauging of these global symmetries, finding an obstruction to the simultaneous gauging of both symmetries which we interpret as a mixed 't Hooft anomaly for the ungauged theory. We discuss the implications of this, analogous to those resulting from a similar structure in Maxwell theory, and interpret the graviton and dual graviton as Nambu-Goldstone modes for these shift symmetries.

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Springer Nature, 2025. no 4, article id 46
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Classical Theories of Gravity, Differential and Algebraic Geometry, Higher Spin Symmetry
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-556824DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2025)046ISI: 001464741900003OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-556824DiVA, id: diva2:1969761
Available from: 2025-06-16 Created: 2025-06-16 Last updated: 2025-06-18Bibliographically approved

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