Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1997-12-19
Nucl.Phys.B520:179-204,1998
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
33 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00179-5
We discuss dyons, charge quantization and electric-magnetic duality for self-interacting, abelian, p-form theories in the spacetime dimensions D=2(p+1) where dyons can be present. The corresponding quantization conditions and duality properties are strikingly different depending on whether p is odd or even. If p is odd one has the familiar eg'-ge'= 2nh, whereas for even p one finds the opposite relative sign, eg'+ge'= 2nh. These conditions are obtained by introducing Dirac strings and taking due account of the multiple connectedness of the configuration space of the strings and the dyons. A two-potential formulation of the theory that treats the electric and magnetic sources on the same footing is also given. Our results hold for arbitrary gauge invariant self-interaction of the fields and are valid irrespective of their duality properties.
Deser Stanley
Gomberoff Andres
Henneaux Marc
Teitelboim Claudio
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