Duality as a Gauge Symmetry and Topology Change
| dc.creator | Giveon, Amit | |
| dc.date | 1993-10-04 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:19:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:19:42Z | |
| dc.description | Duality groups as (spontaneously broken) gauge symmetries for toroidal backgrounds, and their role in ($\infty$-dimensional) underlying string gauge algebras are reviewed. For curved backgrounds, it is shown that there is a duality in the moduli space of WZNW sigma-models, that can be interpreted as a broken gauge symmetry. In particular, this duality relates the backgrounds corresponding to axially gauged abelian cosets, $G/U(1)_a$, to vectorially gauged abelian cosets, $G/U(1)_v$. Finally, topology change in the moduli space of WZNW sigma-models is discussed. | |
| dc.description | 10 pages, RI-153-93 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9310016 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9310016 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/53670 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Duality as a Gauge Symmetry and Topology Change | |
| dc.type | text |