Self-Duality of Various Chiral Boson Actions
Abstract
The duality symmetries of various chiral boson actions are investigated using D=2 and D=6 space-time dimensions as examples. These actions involve the Siegel, Floreanini-Jackiw, Srivastava and Pasti-Sorokin-Tonin formulations. We discover that the Siegel, Floreanini-Jackiw and Pasti-Sorokin-Tonin actions have self-duality with respect to a common anti-dualization of chiral boson fields in D=2 and D=6 dimensions, respectively, while the Srivastava action is self-dual with respect to a generalized dualization of chiral boson fields. Moreover, the action of the Floreanini-Jackiw chiral bosons interacting with gauge fields in D=2 dimensions also has self-duality but with respect to a generalized anti-dualization of chiral boson fields.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9912066,
title = {Self-Duality of Various Chiral Boson Actions},
author = {Yan-Gang Miao and H. J. W. Mueller-Kirsten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9912066},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
23 pages, Latex; no figures; minor typos corrected; final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D