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Reducing $S$- duality to $T$- duality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-06 v2

Abstract

The infrared limit of D=4,  N=4D=4,~~N=4 Yang-Mills theory with compact gauge group GG compactified on a two-torus is governed by an effective superconformal field theory. We conjecture that this is a certain orbifold involving the maximal torus of GG. Yang-Mills SS-duality makes predictions for all correlators of this effective conformal field theory. These predictions are shown to be implied by the standard TT-duality of the conformal field theory. Consequently, Montonen-Olive duality between electric and magnetic states reduces to the standard two-dimensional duality between momentum and winding states.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9501022,
  title  = {Reducing $S$- duality to $T$- duality},
  author = {J. A. Harvey and G. Moore and A. Strominger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9501022},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

13 pages, harvmac, no figures. (Some Comments added. Some references added.)