No local Maxwell duality invariance
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-03-28 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
I show, in canonical formulation of flat space Maxwell theory, that its duality rotation invariance must have constant parameter, cannot be promoted to a local one by adding a compensating field, and that these conclusions hold in the curved space Maxwell-Einstein extension.
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@article{arxiv.1012.5109,
title = {No local Maxwell duality invariance},
author = {S. Deser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.5109},
year = {2011}
}
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