On Lagrangian approach to self-dual gauge fields in spacetime of nontrivial topology

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作者：

Igor Bandos

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[1] UPV/EHU,

[2] IKERBASQUE,undefined

[3] Basque Foundation for Science,undefined

来源：

Journal of High Energy Physics | / 2014卷

关键词：

Gauge Symmetry; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Field Theories in Lower Dimensions; Global Symmetries;

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摘要：

We study the Lagrangian description of chiral bosons, p-form gauge fields with (anti–)self-dual gauge field strengths, in D = 2p + 2 dimensional spacetime of non-trivial topology. We show that the manifestly Lorentz and diffeomorphism invariant Pasti-Sorokin-Tonin (PST) approach is consistent and produces the (anti-)self-duality equation also in topologically nontrivial spacetime. We discuss in what circumstances the nontrivial topology makes difference between two disconnected, da-timelike and da-spacelike branches of the PST system, the gauge fixed version of which are described by not manifestly invariant Henneaux-Teitelboim (HT) and Perry-Schwarz (PS) actions, respectively.

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