Published January 15, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Geometric approach to a massive p form duality

  • 1. Grupo de Campos y Particulas, Departamento de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, AP 47270, Caracas 1041-A (Venezuela)
  • 2. Departamento de Fisica Teorica, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco 28049, Madrid (Spain)
  • 3. Centro de Astrofisica Teorica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, La Hechicera, Merida 5101 (Venezuela)

Description

Massive theories of Abelian p forms are quantized in a generalized path representation that leads to a description of the phase space in terms of a pair of dual nonlocal operators analogous to the Wilson loop and the 't Hooft disorder operators. Special attention is devoted to the study of the duality between the topologically massive and self-dual models in 2+1 dimensions. It is shown that these models share a geometric representation in which just one nonlocal operator suffices to describe the observables

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
67
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 025020-025020.11
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
35075165
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
DIMENSIONS; DUALITY; GAUGE INVARIANCE; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; PHASE SPACE; WILSON LOOP
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPACE

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