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We review the status of electric/magnetic duality for free gauge field theories in four space-time dimensions with emphasis on Maxwell theory and linearized Einstein gravity. Using the theory of vector and tensor spherical harmonics, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-15 Ioannis Bakas

We provide a full realization of the electromagnetic duality at the boundary by extending the phase space of Maxwell's theory through the introduction of edge modes and their conjugate momenta. We show how such extension, which follows from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-24 Laurent Freidel , Daniele Pranzetti

We introduce a doubled formalism for the bosonic sector of the maximal supergravities, in which a Hodge dual potential is introduced for each bosonic field (except for the metric). The equations of motion can then be formulated as a twisted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 E. Cremmer , B. Julia , H. Lu , C. N. Pope

Starting with the generalized potentials, currents, field tensors and electromagnetic vector fields of dyons as the complex complex quantities with real and imaginary counter parts as electric and magnetic constituents, we have established…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Dehnen , O. P. S. Negi

The duality relation between the electric and magnetic fields, in the presence of an additional axion-like field, is considered. We derive the new equations that describe the electrodynamics in this model, and we discuss the implications…

General Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Luca Visinelli

Hidden symmetries are the backbone of Integrable two-dimensional theories. They provide classical solutions of higher dimensional models as well, they seem to survive partially quantisation and their discrete remnants in M-theory called…

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The fundamental metrics, which describe any static three-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell spacetime (depending only on a unique spacelike coordinate), are found. In this case there are only three independent components of the electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Mauricio Cataldo

We study generalized electric/magnetic duality in Abelian gauge theory by combining techniques from locally covariant quantum field theory and Cheeger-Simons differential cohomology on the category of globally hyperbolic Lorentzian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-12 Christian Becker , Marco Benini , Alexander Schenkel , Richard J. Szabo

An outline is given of recent work concerning the electromagnetic duality properties of Maxwell theory on curved space-times with or without spin structures.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 David I Olive

We consider a pure U(1) quantum gauge field theory on a general Riemannian compact four manifold. We compute the partition function with Abelian Wilson loop insertions. We find its duality covariance properties and derive topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto Zucchini

We consider the ($3{+}1$)-dimensional Maxwell theory in the situation where going around nontrivial paths in the spacetime involves the action of the duality transformation exchanging the electric field and the magnetic field, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-18 Chang-Tse Hsieh , Yuji Tachikawa , Kazuya Yonekura

It is shown how to break the symmetry of a Lagrangian with duality symmetry between electric and magnetic monopoles, so that at low energy, electric monopole interactions continue to be observed but magnetic monopole interactions become…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jay R. Yablon

The dual symmetry between electric and magnetic fields is an important intrinsic property of Maxwell equations in free space. This symmetry underlies the conservation of optical helicity, and, as we show here, is closely related to the…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-16 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Aleksandr Y. Bekshaev , Franco Nori

The governing equations of Maxwell electrodynamics in multi-dimensional spaces are derived from the variational principle of least action which is applied to the action function of the electromagnetic field. The Hamiltonian approach for the…

General Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Alexei M. Frolov

Using the biquaternions algebra with involution and mutual quaternional gradients the equations of one model of electro-gravimagnetic (EGM) field are constructed on the base of Hamilton form of Maxwell equations. For this field the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lyudmila A. Alexeyeva

We study electric-magnetic duality in Lorentz invariant symmetric tensor gauge theories, where immobile charged particles - fractons - arise due to the generalized current conservation $\partial_{\mu} \partial_{\nu} J^{\mu \nu} = 0$ and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-07 Ryuki Makino , Shin Sasaki , Kenta Shiozawa

We discuss under what conditions the duality between electric and magnetic fields is a valid symmetry of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics. It is shown that Maxwell's equations in the absence of free charges satisfy duality invariance on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-14 Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Stefan Scheel

We generalise the electric-magnetic duality in standard Maxwell theory to its non-commutative version. Both space-space and space-time non-commutativity are necessary. The duality symmetry is then extended to a general class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-11 Yasumi Abe , Rabin Banerjee , Izumi Tsutsui

Black holes can be electromagnetically charged, or carry vector charge from new fundamental fields. Their response to small fluctuations is of paramount importance to study gravitational wave generation. However, the usual even and odd…

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