On Dual Formulations of Massive Tensor Fields

Abstract

In this paper we investigate dual formulations for massive tensor fields. Usual procedure for construction of such dual formulations based on the use of first order parent Lagrangians in many cases turns out to be ambiguous. We propose to solve such ambiguity by using gauge invariant description of massive fields which works both in Minkowski space as well as (Anti) de Sitter spaces. We illustrate our method by two concrete examples: spin-2 "tetrad" field h_{μa}, the dual field being "Lorentz connection" ω_{μ,ab} and "Riemann" tensor R_{μν,ab} with the dual Σ_{μν,abc}.

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