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Duality-invariant (super)conformal higher-spin models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-01-06 v5

Abstract

We develop a general formalism of duality rotations for bosonic conformal spin-ss gauge fields, with s2s\geq 2, in a conformally flat four-dimensional spacetime. In the s=1s=1 case this formalism is equivalent to the theory of U(1)\mathsf{U}(1) duality-invariant nonlinear electrodynamics developed by Gaillard and Zumino, Gibbons and Rasheed, and generalised by Ivanov and Zupnik. For each integer spin s2s\geq 2 we demonstrate the existence of families of conformal U(1)\mathsf{U}(1) duality-invariant models, including a generalisation of the so called ModMax Electrodynamics (s=1s=1). Our bosonic results are then extended to the N=1\mathcal{N}=1 and N=2\mathcal{N}=2 supersymmetric cases. We also sketch a formalism of duality rotations for conformal gauge fields of Lorentz type (m/2,n/2)(m/2, n/2), for positive integers mm and nn.

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@article{arxiv.2107.02001,
  title  = {Duality-invariant (super)conformal higher-spin models},
  author = {Sergei M. Kuzenko and Emmanouil S. N. Raptakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.02001},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

42 pages; v5: typos in eqs. (2.15) and (2.16) corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-24T03:53:54.405Z