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.
Cite
@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