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A Yang-Mills Theory in Loop Space and Generalized Chapline-Manton Coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We consider a Yang-Mills theory in loop space with an affine Lie gauge group. The Chapline-Manton coupling, the coupling between Yang-Mills fields and an abelian antisymmetric tensor field of second rank via the Chern-Simons term, is systematically derived within the framework of the Yang-Mills theory. The generalized Chapline-Manton couplings, the couplings among non-abelian tensor fields of second rank, Yang-Mills fields, and an abelian tensor field of third rank, are also derived by applying the non-linear realization method to the Yang-Mills theory. These couplings are accompanied by {\it BF}-like terms.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0005030,
  title  = {A Yang-Mills Theory in Loop Space and Generalized Chapline-Manton Coupling},
  author = {Tadahito Nakajima},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0005030},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

28 pages, Latex, no figures, references added, revised version with minor changes to appear in Prog.Theor.Phys

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