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We elaborate on the duality-symmetric nonlinear electrodynamics in a new formulation with auxiliary tensor fields. The Maxwell field strength appears only in bilinear terms of the corresponding generic Lagrangian, while the self-interaction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 E. A. Ivanov , B. M. Zupnik

We reformulate classical electromagnetism within the matter-space framework of relativistic fluid dynamics. The central assumption is that the relevant degrees of freedom are encoded in differential forms on a three-dimensional matter space…

General Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Jeongwon Ho , Hyeong-Chan Kim , Jungjai Lee , Yongjun Yun

A geometric formulation which describes extended supergravities in any dimension in presence of electric and magnetic sources is presented. In this framework the underlying duality symmetries of the theories are manifest. Particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 L. Andrianopoli , R. D'Auria , S. Ferrara

No positive result has been obtained on the magnetic monopoles search. This allows to consider different theoretical approaches as the proposed in this paper, developed in the framework of the Einstein General Relativity. The properties of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan Mendez

We investigate higher-order asymptotic symmetries for a $p$-form gauge field in $(p + 2)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, where Hodge duality with a scalar holds. Employing symplectic renormalization, we identify $N + 1$ independent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-11 Federico Manzoni , Matteo Romoli

This thesis is devoted to various aspects of electric-magnetic duality and its gravitational generalization, with an emphasis on the case of maximal supergravity. It is divided into three parts. In the first part, we review the the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Victor Lekeu

It is shown that conformal symmetry exists in force-free electrodynamics (FFE) in Minkowski spacetime, a foundational framework for describing magnetospheres around astronomical objects. In force-free magnetospheres, charges are constrained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Huiquan Li , Jianyong Wang

It is considered a mechanism of dynamical symmetry breaking for extended Ue(1)xUg(1) containing, one vector gauge field 'A' (photon) and one pseudo-vector gauge field 'C' (pseudo-photon). By choosing a particular solution of the equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-07-09 P. Castelo Ferreira

We propose a manifestly duality-invariant, Lorentz-invariant, and local action to describe quantum electrodynamics theory in the presence of magnetic monopoles that derives from Sen's formalism. By employing field strengths as the dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Aviral Aggarwal , Subhroneel Chakrabarti , Madhusudhan Raman

We review equivalent formulations of nonlinear and higher derivatives theories of electromagnetism exhibiting electric-magnetic duality rotations symmetry. We study in particular on shell and off shell formulations of this symmetry, at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Paolo Aschieri , Sergio Ferrara , Stefan Theisen

In this paper we study the dual charges of $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity in asymptotically flat space-time. The action considered is the usual supergravity action with a topological contribution. This is the Nieh-Yan term and the magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Bilyana L. Tomova

We consider a space-time invariant duality symmetric action for a free Maxwell field and an $SL(2,{\bf R})\times SO(6,22)$ invariant effective action describing a low-energy bosonic sector of the heterotic string compactified on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Paolo Pasti , Dmitrij Sorokin , Mario Tonin

We study duality transformation and duality symmetry in the the electromagnetic-like charged p-form theories. It is shown that the dichotomic characterization of duality groups as $Z_2$ or SO(2) remains as the only possibilities but are now…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Roberto Menezes , Clovis Wotzasek

In four dimensions, partially massless fields of all spins and depths possess a duality invariance akin to electric-magnetic duality. We construct metric-like gauge invariant curvature tensors for partially massless fields of all integer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-26 Kurt Hinterbichler , Austin Joyce

We have examined quantum theories of electric magnetic duality invariant vector fields enjoying classical conformal invariance in 4-dimensional flat spacetime. We extend Dirac's argument about "the conditions for a quantum field theory to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Sung-Pil Moon , Sang-Jin Lee , Ji-Hye Lee , Jae-Hyuk Oh

It is well known that velocities does not commute in presence of an electromagnetic field. This property implies that angular algebra symmetries, such as the sO(3) and Lorentz algebra symmetries, are broken. To restore these angular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 A. Berard , J. Lages , H. Mohrbach

In this paper, we study the theory of second gradient electromagnetostatics as the static version of second gradient electrodynamics. The theory of second gradient electrodynamics is a linear generalization of higher order of classical…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-07-03 Markus Lazar , Jakob Leck

We generalize the electromagnetic duality between a massless, canonical scalar field and a 2-form gauge field in 4-dimensional spacetime to scalar-tensor theories. We derive the action of 2-form gauge field that is dual to two kinds of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-30 Daisuke Yoshida

Using on-shell amplitude methods, we explore 4-dimensional Electric-Magnetic duality and its double copy. We show explicitly that the on-shell scattering amplitudes know about `dual' photons (and dual gravitons), that the off-shell photon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-26 Nathan Moynihan , Jeff Murugan

We derive the Maxwell's equations on the $\kappa$-deformed spacetime, valid up to first order in the deformation parameter, using the Feynman's approach. We show that the electric-magnetic duality is a symmetry of these equations. It is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 E. Harikumar