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Generalized symmetries and manifest duality. II. Curved spacetime

Subhroneel Chakrabarti, Arkajyoti Manna, and Madhusudhan Raman

Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 2 November, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/6jjq-5tfz

Abstract

We extend the potential-based formulation of self-dual and duality-symmetric gauge theories developed in to curved spacetime. The gravitational coupling is encoded by the same metric-dependent linear map of Sen’s formalism. The parent new action retains the higher-form h-gauge symmetry, and different gauge choices reproduce either Sen’s flux-based formulation or a potential-based description in which the shadow sector decouples directly at the level of the action. We also derive explicit form of the gravitational map for the toroidally reduced theory in D=4n and for a polyform formulation in arbitrary dimension, both of which apply equally to ours as well as Sen’s formalism. As non-trivial checks, we reproduce the 'Alvarez-Gaum'e-Witten gravitational anomalies of the two-dimensional chiral boson without fermionisation, and of the ten-dimensional self-dual five-form. Finally, on AdS5×S5 the physical on-shell action yields the non-vanishing boundary contribution required by holography without adding a boundary term by hand. We also establish a local on-shell identification with the textbook supergravity RR four-form potential.

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