Self-Duality of Various Chiral Boson Actions
- Abstract: The duality symmetries of various chiral boson actions are investigated using D = 2 and D = 6 space-time dimensions as examples. These actions involve the Siegel, Floreanini-Jackiw, Srivastava and Pasti-Sorokin-Tonin formulations. We discover that the Siegel, Floreanini-Jackiw and Pasti-Sorokin-Tonin actions have self-duality with respect to a common anti-dualization of chiral boson fields in D = 2 and D = 6 dimensions, respectively, while the Srivastava action is self-dual with respect to a generalized dualization of chiral boson fields. Moreover, the action of the Floreanini-Jackiw chiral bosons interacting with gauge fields in D = 2 dimensions also has self-duality but with respect to a generalized anti-dualization of chiral boson fields.
Author: | Yan-Gang Miao, H.J.W. Müller-Kirsten |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-10943 |
Document Type: | Preprint |
Language of publication: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2000 |
Year of first Publication: | 2000 |
Publishing Institution: | Technische Universität Kaiserslautern |
Date of the Publication (Server): | 2001/02/09 |
Faculties / Organisational entities: | Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Physik |
DDC-Cassification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 530 Physik |
Licence (German): | Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vor dem 27.05.2011 |