Manifest Duality in Born-Infeld Theory
Ingemar Bengtsson (Stockholm)
TL;DR
This paper explores the duality properties of Born-Infeld theory by reformulating it with an infinite set of gauge fields, demonstrating the theory's internal consistency and the local nature of its duality transformations.
Contribution
It introduces a new formulation of Born-Infeld theory using an infinite gauge field set, establishing a fully local duality functional and resolving previous consistency issues.
Findings
Duality generated by a local functional in the new formulation
The formulation is shown to be consistent
Electromagnetic duality is explicitly realized
Abstract
Born-Infeld theory is formulated using an infinite set of gauge fields, along the lines of McClain, Wu and Yu. In this formulation electromagnetic duality is generated by a fully local functional. The resulting consistency problems are analyzed and the formulation is shown to be consistent.
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