Abelian Duality and Abelian Wilson Loops
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
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 selection rules. Finally, we show that, to have manifest duality, one must assume the existence of twisted topological sectors besides the standard untwisted one.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0210244,
title = {Abelian Duality and Abelian Wilson Loops},
author = {Roberto Zucchini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0210244},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
36 pages, Plain TeX, no figures, requires AMS font files AMSSYM.DEF and amssym.tex; an example and two references added