A Geometric Approach to Massive p-form Duality
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v3
Abstract
Massive theories of abelian p-forms are quantized in a generalized path-representation that leads to a description of the phase space in terms of a pair of dual non-local operators analogous to the Wilson Loop and the 't Hooft disorder operators. Special atention is devoted to the study of the duality between the Topologically Massive and the Self-Dual models in 2+1 dimensions. It is shown that these models share a geometric representation in which just one non local operator suffices to describe the observables.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0206082,
title = {A Geometric Approach to Massive p-form Duality},
author = {Pio J. Arias and Lorenzo Leal and Jean Carlos Perez-Mosquera},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0206082},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
26 pages, LaTeX. The discussion about the equivalence between the Proca model and two seldual models, with opposite spins, was eliminated. Typos corrected