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An alternative formulation of classical electromagnetic duality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

By introducing a doublet of electromagnetic four dimensional vector potentials, we set up a manifestly Lorentz covariant and SO(2) duality invariant classical field theory of electric and magnetic charges. In our formulation one does not need to introduce the concept of Dirac string.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0009116,
  title  = {An alternative formulation of classical electromagnetic duality},
  author = {Kang Li and Carlos M. Naón},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0009116},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, no figures, Latex, minor corrections, references and acknowledgements added

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