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Podolsky electrodynamics from a condensation of topological defects

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-04-07 v1

Abstract

In this paper we demonstrate the arising of higher-derivative contributions to the effective action of electrodynamics on the base of generalized Julia-Toulouse mechanism and explicitly show that the complete effective action generated within this methodology is nonlocal.

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@article{arxiv.1912.00855,
  title  = {Podolsky electrodynamics from a condensation of topological defects},
  author = {D. R. Granado and A. J. G. Carvalho and A. Yu. Petrov and P. J. Porfirio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.00855},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages