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Electric/magnetic duality and its stringy origins

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-04-15 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We review electric/magnetic duality in N=4N=4 (and certain N=2N=2) globally supersymmetric gauge theories and show how this duality, which relates strong to weak coupling, follows as a consequence of a string/string duality. Black holes, eleven dimensions and supermembranes also have a part to play in the big picture.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9509106,
  title  = {Electric/magnetic duality and its stringy origins},
  author = {M. J. Duff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9509106},
  year   = {2011}
}

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