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Particle-vortex and Maxwell duality in the $AdS_4\times \mathbb{CP}^3$/ABJM correspondence

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-19 v1

Abstract

We revisit the notion of particle-vortex duality in abelian theories of complex scalar fields coupled to gauge fields, formulating the duality as a transformation at the level of the path integral. This transformation is then made symmetric and cast as a self-duality that maps the original theory into itself with the role of particles and vortices interchanged. After defining the transformation for a pure Chern-Simons gauge theory, we show how to embed it into (a sector of) the (2+1)(2+1)-dimensional ABJM model, and argue that this duality can be understood as being related to 4-dimensional Maxwell duality in the AdS4×CP3AdS_{4}\times\mathbb{CP}^{3} bulk.

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@article{arxiv.1404.5926,
  title  = {Particle-vortex and Maxwell duality in the $AdS_4\times \mathbb{CP}^3$/ABJM correspondence},
  author = {Jeff Murugan and Horatiu Nastase and Nitin Rughoonauth and Jonathan P. Shock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.5926},
  year   = {2015}
}

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