First Order Actions for New Massive Dual Gravities

TL;DR

This paper introduces a first order formulation for the fourth order action of new massive dual gravity in four dimensions, generalizable to any dimension, and derives dual actions for Curtright fields.

Contribution

It provides a novel first order formulation for new massive dual gravity and extends dual action derivations to arbitrary dimensions.

Findings

First order formulation simplifies the analysis of massive dual gravity.

Dual actions for massless and massive Curtright fields are obtained in D dimensions.

The approach is easily generalizable to arbitrary dimensions.

Abstract

We present a first order formulation for the fourth order action of the new massive dual gravity in four dimensions. This proposal is easily generalized to arbitrary dimension. Also, we obtain the dual actions for massless and massive Curtright fields in D dimensions.