Gauging dual symmetry

DOI10.1023/A:1020192616580zbMATH Open1016.83007arXivhep-th/0106277WikidataQ57445005 ScholiaQ57445005MaRDI QIDQ1855321FDOQ1855321

Douglas Singleton, Akira Kato

Publication date: 4 February 2003

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The idea of gauging (i.e. making local) symmetries of a physical system is a central feature of many modern field theories. Usually, one starts with a Lagrangian for some scalar or spinor matter fields, with the Lagrangian being invariant under a global phase symmetry transformation of the matter fields. Making this global phase symmetry local results in the introduction of vector fields. The vector fields can be said to arise as a result of the gauge principle. Here we show that this chain of reasoning can be reversed: by gauging the electric-magnetic dual symmetry of a Lagrangian which originally contains only the vector gauge fields we find that it is necessary to introduce matter fields (scalar fields in our example). In this gauging of the electric-magnetic dual symmetry the traditional roles of the vector fields and the matter fields are interchanged.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0106277

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge theoryfield theorydual symmetrymagnetic charge

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special relativity (83A05) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22)

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