Actions for non-abelian twisted self-duality

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.05.024zbMATH Open1229.81254arXiv1105.3216OpenAlexW1977121778MaRDI QIDQ656643FDOQ656643

Henning Samtleben

Publication date: 18 January 2012

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

Abstract: The dynamics of abelian vector and antisymmetric tensor gauge fields can be described in terms of twisted self-duality equations. These first-order equations relate the p-form fields to their dual forms by demanding that their respective field strengths are dual to each other. It is well known that such equations can be integrated to a local action that carries on equal footing the p-forms together with their duals and is manifestly duality invariant. Space-time covariance is no longer manifest but still present with a non-standard realization of space-time diffeomorphisms on the gauge fields. In this paper, we give a non-abelian generalization of this first-order action by gauging part of its global symmetries. The resulting field equations are non-abelian versions of the twisted self-duality equations. A key element in the construction is the introduction of proper couplings to higher-rank tensor fields. We discuss possible applications (to Yang-Mills and supergravity theories) and comment on the relation to previous no-go theorems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3216

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supergravity (83E50)

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• On covariant actions for chiral \(p\)-forms
• (1,0) superconformal models in six dimensions
• Nonlinear (chiral) \(p\)-form electrodynamics
• Action principle for non‐abelian twisted self‐duality
• Deformations of duality-symmetric theories
• Geometry of the nonabelian 2-index potential and twisted de Rham cohomology

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