A Canonical Approach to Duality Transformations
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-05-05 v2
Abstract
We show that Buscher's abelian duality transformation rules can be recovered in a very simple way by performing a canonical transformation first suggested by Giveon, Rabinovici and Veneziano. We explore the properties of this transformation, and also discuss some aspects of non-abelian duality.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9406206,
title = {A Canonical Approach to Duality Transformations},
author = {E. Alvarez and L. Alvarez-Gaume and Y. Lozano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9406206},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
11 p, LaTex, preprint CERN-TH-7337/94 (some comments and references added)