Duality of generalized Maxwell theories as an equivalence in derived geometry
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| author | Elliott, Chris Gwilliam, Owen Saberi, Ingmar Williams, Brian R. |
| author_facet | Elliott, Chris Gwilliam, Owen Saberi, Ingmar Williams, Brian R. |
| contents | We propose a non-perturbative description of the moduli spaces encoding p-form generalized Maxwell theories in any dimension, using derived differential geometry. Our approach synthesizes the Batalin--Vilkovisky formalism with differential cohomology. Within this framework we formulate Dirac charge quantization and show how such charge-quantized moduli spaces exhibit abelian duality between generalized Maxwell theories of different types. We also describe the compactification of generalized Maxwell theories along closed Riemannian manifolds by computing the pushforward of the underlying sheaves of cochain complexes that model differential cohomology. |
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| spellingShingle | Duality of generalized Maxwell theories as an equivalence in derived geometry Elliott, Chris Gwilliam, Owen Saberi, Ingmar Williams, Brian R. Mathematical Physics High Energy Physics - Theory Algebraic Topology Quantum Algebra We propose a non-perturbative description of the moduli spaces encoding p-form generalized Maxwell theories in any dimension, using derived differential geometry. Our approach synthesizes the Batalin--Vilkovisky formalism with differential cohomology. Within this framework we formulate Dirac charge quantization and show how such charge-quantized moduli spaces exhibit abelian duality between generalized Maxwell theories of different types. We also describe the compactification of generalized Maxwell theories along closed Riemannian manifolds by computing the pushforward of the underlying sheaves of cochain complexes that model differential cohomology. |
| title | Duality of generalized Maxwell theories as an equivalence in derived geometry |
| topic | Mathematical Physics High Energy Physics - Theory Algebraic Topology Quantum Algebra |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19161 |