Electric-magnetic duality rotations in nonlinear electrodynamics

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DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00409-LzbMATH Open0925.83031arXivhep-th/9506035MaRDI QIDQ1899622FDOQ1899622

Gary W. Gibbons, D. A. Rasheed

Publication date: 17 October 1995

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

Abstract: We show that there is a function of one variable's worth of Lagrangians for a single Maxwell field coupled to gravity whose equations of motion admit electric-magnetic duality. Such Lagrangians are given by solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for timelike geodesics in Witten's two-dimensional black hole. Among them are the Born-Infeld Lagrangian which arises in open string theory. We investigate the effect of the axion and the dilaton in the open superstring case and we show that this theory loses its electric-magnetic duality invariance when one considers the higher order electromagnetic field terms. We discuss some implications for black holes in string theory and an extension to 2k-forms in 4k spacetime dimensions.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9506035




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