Self-Duality of a Topologically Massive Born-Infeld Theory

TL;DR

This paper explores self-duality in a 2+1 dimensional gauge theory combining Born-Infeld and Chern-Simons terms, revealing that a Born-Infeld inspired Proca generalization shares the same self-dual equation as the original theory.

Contribution

It introduces a Born-Infeld inspired Proca term and demonstrates its self-duality equivalence with the Born-Infeld-Chern-Simons theory.

Findings

Self-duality equation matches that of the Born-Infeld-Chern-Simons theory.

Proca generalization retains self-duality properties.

Unified description of self-duality in Born-Infeld inspired models.

Abstract

We consider self-duality in a 2+1 dimensional gauge theory containing both the Born-Infeld and the Chern-Simons terms. We introduce a Born-Infeld inspired generalization of the Proca term and show that the corresponding self dual equation is identical to that of the Born-Infeld-Chern-Simons theory.