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Spacetime Duality and Superduality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-06 v2 Condensed Matter General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We introduce a new class of duality symmetries amongst quantum field theories. The new class is based upon global spacetime symmetries, such as Poincare invariance and supersymmetry, in the same way as the existing duality transformations are based on global internal symmetries. We illustrate these new duality transformations by dualizing several scalar and spin-half theories in 1+1 spacetime dimensions, involving nonsupersymmetric as well as (1,1) and (2,2) supersymmetric models. For (2,2) models the new duality transformations can interchange chiral and twisted-chiral multiplets.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9809085,
  title  = {Spacetime Duality and Superduality},
  author = {C. P. Burgess and M. T. Grisaru and M. Kamela and M. E. Knutt-Wehlau and P. Page and F. Quevedo and M. Zebarjad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9809085},
  year   = {2016}
}

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As will appear in NPB, minor typos corrected and some references added. 30 pages, plain TeX, no figures