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Gravitational higher-form symmetries and the origin of hidden symmetries in Kaluza-Klein compactifications
Published 26 May 2024 in hep-th and gr-qc | (2405.16706v1)
Abstract: We show that, in presence of isometries and non-trivial topology, the Einstein--Hilbert action is invariant under certain transformations of the metric which are not diffeomorphisms. These transformations are similar to the higher-form symmetries of field theories with $p$-form fields. In the context of toroidal Kaluza--Klein compactifications, we show that these symmetries give rise to some of the ``hidden symmetries'' (dualities) of the dimensionally-reduced theories.
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