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Electric-Magnetic Duality Invariant Lagrangians

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We find general non-linear lagrangians of a U(1) field invariant under electric-magnetic duality. They are characterized by an arbitrary function and go to the Maxwell theory in the weak field limit. We give some explicit examples which are generalizations of the Born-Infeld theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9906103,
  title  = {Electric-Magnetic Duality Invariant Lagrangians},
  author = {Machiko Hatsuda and Kiyoshi Kamimura and Sayaka Sekiya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9906103},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages, Latex, minor changes in the introduction, final version to be published in Nuclear Physics B

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