Generalized abelian S-duality and coset constructions

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00372-YzbMATH Open0925.58106arXivhep-th/9506137OpenAlexW2020329996MaRDI QIDQ1898652FDOQ1898652

Authors: J. L. F. Barbón 

Publication date: 20 September 1995

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

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.

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

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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)

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