Exotic Gauge Theories from Tensor Calculus

Abstract

We construct non-standard interactions between exterior form gauge fields by gauging a particular global symmetry of the Einstein-Maxwell action for such fields. Furthermore we discuss generalizations of such interactions by adding couplings to gravitational Chern-Simons forms and to fields arising through dimensional reduction. The construction uses an appropriate tensor calculus.

11 pages, LaTeX2e with amsmath.sty. Grav. CS-couplings, Comments and references added. To appear in Class.Quantum.Grav

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