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Comment on covariant duality symmetric actions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We demonstrate that an action proposed by A. Khoudeir and N. R. Pantoja in {\sl Phys. Rev.} {\bf D53}, 5974 (1996) for endowing Maxwell theory with manifest electric--magnetic duality symmetry contains, besides the Maxwell field, additional propagating vector degrees of freedom. Hence it cannot be considered as a duality symmetric action for a {\it single} abelian gauge field.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9607171,
  title  = {Comment on covariant duality symmetric actions},
  author = {Paolo Pasti and Dmitrij Sorokin and Mario Tonin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9607171},
  year   = {2009}
}

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