Discrete symmetries of functional determinants

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00650-7zbMATH Open0971.81514arXivhep-th/0009084MaRDI QIDQ1591705FDOQ1591705

R. Smith

Publication date: 8 January 2001

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

Abstract: We study discrete (duality) symmetries of functional determinants. An exact transformation of the effective action under the inversion of background fields $$ is found. We show that in many cases this inversion does not change functional determinants. Explicitly studied models include a matrix theory in two dimensions, the dilaton-Maxwell theory in four dimensions on manifolds without a boundary, and a two-dimensional dilaton theory on manifolds with boundaries. Our results provide an exact relation between strong and weak coupling regimes with possible applications to string theory, black hole physics and dimensionally reduced models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0009084

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zbMATH Keywords

background field inversionexact effective action transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05)

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