Duality and global symmetries

Fernando Quevedo

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Abstract

Duality symmetries are reviewed. A sufficient condition for duality is the existence of a global symmetry. This can be used as a guideline to systematically prove duality between different field theories. Bosonization and T-duality, for abelian and non-abelian global symmetries, are discussed in detail as well as duality for general antisymmetric tensor field theories. In this case, the presence of topological defects break the global symmetry but duality survives manifesting itself in a different way. Open questions and current limitations of this approach to prove all known dualities are discussed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)23-41
Number of pages19
JournalNuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Volume61
Issue number1-2 SUPPL.
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1998

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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