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Autori principali: Makino, Ryuki, Sasaki, Shin, Shiozawa, Kenta
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Makino, Ryuki
Sasaki, Shin
Shiozawa, Kenta
author_facet Makino, Ryuki
Sasaki, Shin
Shiozawa, Kenta
contents We study electric-magnetic duality in Lorentz invariant symmetric tensor gauge theories, where immobile charged particles - fractons - arise due to the generalized current conservation $\partial_μ \partial_ν J^{μν} = 0$ and the fracton gauge principle. We show that the duality in the symmetric gauge theories holds only in four-dimensional spacetime. In higher dimensions, the duality does not hold with only the symmetric gauge fields but tensor fields with more complex symmetries come into play. Furthermore, we show that a hierarchy for the symmetric gauge field theories of higher ranks is interpreted by the bi-form calculus. We also discuss the restricted immobility of $p$-branes in the mixed symmetric gauge theories. As a byproduct, we find that novel self-duality conditions are defined as BPS equations in the four-dimensional Euclidean space.
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spellingShingle Electric-Magnetic Duality for Symmetric Tensor Gauge Theories and Immobile $p$-branes
Makino, Ryuki
Sasaki, Shin
Shiozawa, Kenta
High Energy Physics - Theory
Strongly Correlated Electrons
We study electric-magnetic duality in Lorentz invariant symmetric tensor gauge theories, where immobile charged particles - fractons - arise due to the generalized current conservation $\partial_μ \partial_ν J^{μν} = 0$ and the fracton gauge principle. We show that the duality in the symmetric gauge theories holds only in four-dimensional spacetime. In higher dimensions, the duality does not hold with only the symmetric gauge fields but tensor fields with more complex symmetries come into play. Furthermore, we show that a hierarchy for the symmetric gauge field theories of higher ranks is interpreted by the bi-form calculus. We also discuss the restricted immobility of $p$-branes in the mixed symmetric gauge theories. As a byproduct, we find that novel self-duality conditions are defined as BPS equations in the four-dimensional Euclidean space.
title Electric-Magnetic Duality for Symmetric Tensor Gauge Theories and Immobile $p$-branes
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11174