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Complexified sigma model and duality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-20 v3

Abstract

We show that the equations of motion associated with a complexified sigma-model action do not admit manifest dual SO(n,n) symmetry. In the process we discover new type of numbers which we called `complexoids' in order to emphasize their close relation with both complex numbers and matroids. It turns out that the complexoids allow to consider the analogue of the complexified sigma-model action but with (1+1)-worldsheet metric, instead of Euclidean-worldsheet metric. Our observations can be useful for further developments of complexified quantum mechanics.

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@article{arxiv.1012.3389,
  title  = {Complexified sigma model and duality},
  author = {J. A. Nieto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.3389},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages, Latex, improved version

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