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

axialvector dualityEuler charactergeneralized partition functionsglobal aspectshigher dimensional analogsmodular duality anomalyWilson line operator insertion duality transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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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