Gauging dual symmetry
| dc.creator | Kato, Akira | |
| dc.creator | Singleton, Doug | |
| dc.date | 2001-06-29 | |
| dc.date | 2003-01-10 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:11:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:11:55Z | |
| dc.description | The idea of gauging (i.e. making local) symmetries of a physical system is a central feature of many modern field theories. Usually, one starts with a Lagrangian for some scalar or spinor matter fields, with the Lagrangian being invariant under a global phase symmetry transformation of the matter fields. Making this global phase symmetry local results in the introduction of vector fields. The vector fields can be said to arise as a result of the gauge principle. Here we show that this chain of reasoning can be reversed: by gauging the electric-magnetic dual symmetry of a Lagrangian which originally contains only the vector gauge fields we find that it is necessary to introduce matter fields (scalar fields in our example). In this gauging of the electric-magnetic dual symmetry the traditional roles of the vector fields and the matter fields are interchanged. | |
| dc.description | 6 pages, RevTeX 4 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0106277 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0106277 | |
| dc.identifier | Int.J.Theor.Phys. 41 (2002) 1563-1572 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/50773 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Gauging dual symmetry | |
| dc.type | text |