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The non-Abelian Duality Problem

Statistical Mechanics 2015-06-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We exploit a new theory of duality transformations to construct dual representations of models incompatible with traditional duality transformations. Hence we obtain a solution to the long-standing problem of non-Abelian dualities that hinges on two key observations: (i) from the point of view of dualities, whether the group of symmetries of a model is or is not Abelian is unimportant, and (ii) the new theory of dualities that we exploit includes traditional duality transformations, but also introduces in a natural way more general transformations.

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@article{arxiv.1206.1367,
  title  = {The non-Abelian Duality Problem},
  author = {E. Cobanera and G. Ortiz and E. Knill},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.1367},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages (2 figures) plus Supplemental material

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