Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: We have examined quantum theories of electric-magnetic duality-invariant vector fields enjoying classical conformal invariance in 4-dimensional flat spacetime. We extend Dirac’s argument about “the conditions for a quantum field theory to be relativistic” to “those for a quantum theory to be conformal”. We realize that electric-magnetic duality-invariant vector theories, together with classical conformal invariance defined in 4- d flat spacetime, are still conformally invariant theories when they are quantized in a way that electric magnetic-duality is manifest.
DOI: 10.3938/jkps.67.427
Authors: Sung-Pil Moon, Sang-Jin Lee, Ji-Hye Lee, Jae-Hyuk Oh
Institution: Hanyang University
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1532040031