Duality symmetry in charged p-form theories

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2004.10.039MaRDI QIDQ452217zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roberto Menezes, Clovis Wotzasek

Publication date 19 September 2012

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0410240

zbMATH Keywords

duality symmetryduality transformationelectromagnetic-like charged \(p\)-form theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10)

Abstract: We study duality transformation and duality symmetry in the the electromagnetic-like charged p-form theories. It is shown that the dichotomic characterization of duality groups as $Z_2$ or SO(2) remains as the only possibilities but are now present in all dimensions even and odd. This is a property defined in the symplectic sector of the theory both for massive and massless tensors. It is shown that the duality groups depend, in general, both on the ranks of the fields and on the dimension of the spacetime. We search for the physical origin of this two-fold property and show that it is traceable to the dimensional and rank dependence of the parity of certain operator (a generalized-curl) that naturally decomposes the symplectic sector of the action. These operators are only slightly different in the massive and in the massless cases but their physical origin are quite distinct.

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