Manifest Electromagnetic Duality in Closed Superstring Field Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v2
Abstract
The free action for massless Ramond-Ramond fields is derived from closed superstring field theory using the techniques of Siegel and Zwiebach. For the uncompactified Type IIB superstring, this gives a manifestly Lorentz-covariant action for a self-dual five-form field strength. Upon compactification to four dimensions, the action depends on a U(1) field strength from 4D N=2 supergravity. However, unlike the standard Maxwell action, this action is manifestly invariant under the electromagnetic duality transformation which rotates into .
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9607070,
title = {Manifest Electromagnetic Duality in Closed Superstring Field Theory},
author = {Nathan Berkovits},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9607070},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Added three references and corrected one footnote. 15 pages harvmac