TY - JOUR
T1 - Aspects of space-time dualities
AU - Giveon, Amit
AU - Porrati, Massimo
N1 - Funding Information:
AC thanks the Department of Physics of NYU for its kind hospitality. The work of AG is supportedi n part by BSF - American-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation, and by the BRF - the Basic Research Foundation. The work of MP is supportedi n part by NSF under grant PHY-93 18781.
PY - 1996/9/26
Y1 - 1996/9/26
N2 - Duality groups of Abelian gauge theories on four manifolds and their reduction to two dimensions are considered. The duality groups include elements that relate different space-times in addition to relating different gauge-coupling matrices. We interpret (some of) such dualities as the geometrical symmetries of compactified theories in higher dimensions. In particular, we consider compactifications of a (self-dual) 2-form in 6 -D, and compactifications of a self-dual 4-form in 10 - D. Relations with a self-dual superstring in 6 - D and with the type HB superstring are discussed.
AB - Duality groups of Abelian gauge theories on four manifolds and their reduction to two dimensions are considered. The duality groups include elements that relate different space-times in addition to relating different gauge-coupling matrices. We interpret (some of) such dualities as the geometrical symmetries of compactified theories in higher dimensions. In particular, we consider compactifications of a (self-dual) 2-form in 6 -D, and compactifications of a self-dual 4-form in 10 - D. Relations with a self-dual superstring in 6 - D and with the type HB superstring are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00826-X
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00826-X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0042595426
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 385
SP - 81
EP - 86
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 1-4
ER -