Electric-Magnetic Black Hole Duality
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We generalize duality invariance for the free Maxwell action in an arbitrary background geometry to include the presence of electric and magnetic charges. In particular, it follows that the actions of equally charged electric and magnetic black holes are equal.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9607182,
title = {Electric-Magnetic Black Hole Duality},
author = {S. Deser and M. Henneaux and C. Teitelboim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9607182},
year = {2008}
}