Duality and Global Symmetries
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
This is a general introduction to duality in field theories. The existence and breaking of global symmetries is used as a guideline to systematically prove duality between different field theories. Systems discussed include abelian and non-abelian T-duality in string theory, abelian and nonabelian bosonization, and duality for massless and massive antisymmetric tensor field theories in arbitrary number of dimensions. Open questions regarding these techniques are also discussed. (Lectures given at 33rd Karpacz Winter School `Duality: Strings and Fields' .)
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9706210,
title = {Duality and Global Symmetries},
author = {Fernando Quevedo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9706210},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
19 pages,latex,espcrc2