Local Actions with Electric and Magnetic Sources
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v2
Abstract
Superstring field theory was recently used to derive a covariant action for a self-dual five-form field strength. This action is shown to be a ten-dimensional version of the McClain-Wu-Yu action. By coupling to D-branes, it can be generalized in the presence of sources. In four dimensions, this gives a local Maxwell action with electric and magnetic sources.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9610134,
title = {Local Actions with Electric and Magnetic Sources},
author = {Nathan Berkovits},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9610134},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages. Corrected a factor of 2 in equation (5.1)