On Duality Invariant Yang-Mills Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2026-01-12 v1
Abstract
We provide an explicit construction of a manifestly duality invariant, interacting deformation of Maxwell theory in four dimensions in terms of mutually local, but interacting 1- and 3-forms. Interestingly, our theory is formulated directly as a BRST quantized gauge theory, while the underlying gauge invariant Lagrangian before gauge fixing is obscured. Furthermore, the underlying gauge invariance is based on an associative, rather than a Lie symmetry.
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@article{arxiv.2601.05744,
title = {On Duality Invariant Yang-Mills Theory},
author = {Carlo Alberto Cremonini and Erik Hundeshagen and Ivo Sachs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.05744},
year = {2026}
}
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5 pages