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Duality and Non-Commutative Gauge Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We study the generalization of S-duality to non-commutative gauge theories. For rank one theories, we obtain the leading terms of the dual theory by Legendre transforming the Lagrangian of the non-commutative theory expressed in terms of a commutative gauge field. The dual description is weakly coupled when the original theory is strongly coupled if we appropriately scale the non-commutativity parameter. However, the dual theory appears to be non-commutative in space-time when the original theory is non-commutative in space. This suggests that locality in time for non-commutative theories is an artifact of perturbation theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0005046,
  title  = {Duality and Non-Commutative Gauge Theory},
  author = {Ori J. Ganor and Govindan Rajesh and Savdeep Sethi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0005046},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, harvmac; a typo fixed

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