Off-shell duality in Born-Infeld theory

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00105-5MaRDI QIDQ5935335zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors C. R. Leão, Victor O. Rivelles

Publication date 21 June 2001

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0101031

zbMATH Keywords

\(\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})\) dualityBorn-Infeld theoryduality symmetryHamiltonian formalismlinear non-local transformations of potentialsmodular invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Symmetries and conservation laws in mechanics of particles and systems (70S10)

Abstract: The classical equations of motion of Maxwell and Born-Infeld theories are known to be invariant under a duality symmetry acting on the field strengths. We implement the SL(2,Z) duality in these theories as linear but non-local transformations on the potentials. We show that the action and the partition function in the Hamiltonian formalism are modular invariant in any gauge. For the Born-Infeld theory we find that the longitudinal part of the fields have to be complexified.

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