Electric/magnetic duality for chiral gauge theories with anomaly cancellation

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dc.creatorDe Rydt, Jan
dc.creatorSchmidt, Torsten T.
dc.creatorTrigiante, Mario
dc.creatorVan Proeyen, Antoine
dc.creatorZagermann, Marco
dc.date2008-08-15
dc.date2009-02-07
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:38:25Z
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dc.descriptionWe show that 4D gauge theories with Green-Schwarz anomaly cancellation and possible generalized Chern-Simons terms admit a formulation that is manifestly covariant with respect to electric/magnetic duality transformations. This generalizes previous work on the symplectically covariant formulation of anomaly-free gauge theories as they typically occur in extended supergravity, and now also includes general theories with (pseudo-)anomalous gauge interactions as they may occur in global or local N=1 supersymmetry. This generalization is achieved by relaxing the linear constraint on the embedding tensor so as to allow for a symmetric 3-tensor related to electric and/or magnetic quantum anomalies in these theories. Apart from electric and magnetic gauge fields, the resulting Lagrangians also feature two-form fields and can accommodate various unusual duality frames as they often appear, e.g., in string compactifications with background fluxes.
dc.description37 pages; v2: typos corrected and 1 reference added
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2130
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2130
dc.identifierJHEP 0812:105,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/105
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/218753
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleElectric/magnetic duality for chiral gauge theories with anomaly cancellation
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