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On massive gravitons in 2+1 dimensions
Eric Bergshoeff, Olaf Hohm, Paul Townsend
The Fierz-Pauli (FP) free field theory for massive spin 2 particles can be extended, in a spacetime of (1+2) dimensions (3D), to a generally covariant parity-preserving interacting…
On Higher Derivatives in 3D Gravity and Higher Spin Gauge Theories
Eric A. Bergshoeff, Olaf Hohm, Paul K. Townsend
The general second-order massive field equations for arbitrary positive integer spin in three spacetime dimensions, and their "self-dual" limit to first-order equations, are shown…
BPS Open Strings and A-D-E-singularities in F-theory on K3
Eric A. Bergshoeff, Jelle Hartong
We improve on a recently constructed graphical representation of the supergravity 7-brane solution and apply this refined representation to re-study the open string description of…
Massive 3D Supergravity
Roel Andringa, Eric A. Bergshoeff, Mees de Roo +3
We construct the N=1 three-dimensional supergravity theory with cosmological, Einstein-Hilbert, Lorentz Chern-Simons, and general curvature squared terms. We determine the general…
More on Massive 3D Gravity
Eric A. Bergshoeff, Olaf Hohm, Paul K. Townsend
We explore the space of static solutions of the recently discovered three-dimensional `New Massive Gravity' (NMG), allowing for either sign of the Einstein-Hilbert term and a cosmo…
Can dual gravity be reconciled with E11?
Eric A. Bergshoeff, Mees de Roo, Olaf Hohm
We extend a recently proposed formulation of dual gravity to the case of eleven-dimensional supergravity. The supersymmetric action corresponding to this alternative formulation is…
Gauge Theories, Duality Relations and the Tensor Hierarchy
Eric A. Bergshoeff, Jelle Hartong, Olaf Hohm +2
We compute the complete 3- and 4-dimensional tensor hierarchies, i.e. sets of p-form fields, with , which realize an off-shell algebra of bosonic gauge transformations…
Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions
Eric A. Bergshoeff, Olaf Hohm, Paul K. Townsend
A particular higher-derivative extension of the Einstein-Hilbert action in three spacetime dimensions is shown to be equivalent at the linearized level to the (unitary) Pauli-Fierz…