Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Generalized gauge fields are tensor fields with mixed symmetries. For gravity and higher spins in dimensions greater than four, the fundamental field in the ``magnetic representation'' is a generalized gauge field. It is shown that the analog of a point source for a generalized gauge field is a special type of brane whose world sheet has another brane interwoven into it: a current within a current. In the case of gravity in higher dimensions, this combined extended object is the generalization of a magnetic pole. The product of the ``electric'' and ``magnetic'' strengths is quantized.
Authors: Claudio Bunster, Marc Henneaux
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2068657231