No local Maxwell duality invariance

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/8/085009zbMATH Open1216.83019arXiv1012.5109OpenAlexW3101793399MaRDI QIDQ3000813FDOQ3000813

Authors: Stanley Deser 

Publication date: 31 May 2011

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: I show, in canonical formulation of flat space Maxwell theory, that its duality rotation invariance must have constant parameter, cannot be promoted to a local one by adding a compensating field, and that these conclusions hold in the curved space Maxwell-Einstein extension.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5109

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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