Towards a non-Abelian electric-magnetic symmetry: The skeleton group

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2010)095zbMATH Open1269.81087arXiv0812.1230OpenAlexW2107784199WikidataQ59254991 ScholiaQ59254991MaRDI QIDQ359031FDOQ359031

F. Alexander Bais, J. K. Slingerland, B. J. Schroers, L. Kampmeijer

Publication date: 9 August 2013

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose an electric-magnetic symmetry group in non-abelian gauge theory, which we call the skeleton group. We work in the context of non-abelian unbroken gauge symmetry, and provide evidence for our proposal by relating the representation theory of the skeleton group to the labelling and fusion rules of charge sectors. We show that the labels of electric, magnetic and dyonic sectors in non-abelian Yang-Mills theory can be interpreted in terms of irreducible representations of the skeleton group. Decomposing tensor products of these representations thus gives a set of fusion rules which contain information about the full fusion rules of these charge sectors. We demonstrate consistency of the skeleton's fusion rules with the known fusion rules of the purely electric and purely magnetic magnetic sectors, and extract new predictions for the fusion rules of dyonic sectors in particular cases. We also implement S-duality and show that the fusion rules obtained from the skeleton group commute with S-duality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.1230

zbMATH Keywords

confinementsolitonsduality in gauge field theoriesgauge symmetrymonopoles and instantons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Soliton solutions (35C08) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

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