Generalized abelian S-duality and coset constructions

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00372-YMaRDI QIDQ1898652zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. L. F. Barbón

Publication date 20 September 1995

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9506137

zbMATH Keywords

generalized partition functionsEuler characteraxialvector dualityglobal aspectshigher dimensional analogsmodular duality anomalyWilson line operator insertion duality transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Abstract: Electric-magnetic duality and higher dimensional analogues are obtained as symmetries in generalized coset constructions, similar to the axial-vector duality of two dimensional coset models described by Rocek and Verlinde. We also study global aspects of duality between p-forms and (d-p-2)-forms in d-manifolds. In particular, the modular duality anomaly is governed by the Euler character as in four and two dimensions. Duality transformations of Wilson line operator insertions are also considered.

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