On p-Form Gauge Theories and their Conformal Limits
Relations between the various formulations of nonlinear p-form electrodynamics with conformal-invariant weak-field and strong-field limits are clarified, with a focus on duality invariant (2n - 1)-form electrodynamics and chiral 2n-form electrodynamics in Minkowski spacetime of dimension D = 4n and...
| Autores: | , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad del País Vasco |
| Repositorio: | Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/51140 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/51140 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | duality in gauge field theories brane dynamics in gauge theories space-time symmetries |
| Sumario: | Relations between the various formulations of nonlinear p-form electrodynamics with conformal-invariant weak-field and strong-field limits are clarified, with a focus on duality invariant (2n - 1)-form electrodynamics and chiral 2n-form electrodynamics in Minkowski spacetime of dimension D = 4n and D = 4n + 2, respectively. We exhibit a new family of chiral 2-form electrodynamics in D = 6 for which these limits exhaust the possibilities for conformal invariance; the weak-field limit is related by dimensional reduction to the recently discovered ModMax generalisation of Maxwell's equations. For n > 1 we show that the chiral 'strong-field' 2n-form electrodynamics is related by dimensional reduction to a new Sl(2; )-duality invariant theory of (2n - 1)-form electrodynamics |
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