HAMILTONIAN ELECTRIC MAGNETIC DUALITY AND LORENTZ INVARIANCE/

Authors
DESER S SARIOGLU O
Citation
S. Deser et O. Sarioglu, HAMILTONIAN ELECTRIC MAGNETIC DUALITY AND LORENTZ INVARIANCE/, Physics letters. Section B, 423(3-4), 1998, pp. 369-372
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. Section B → ACNP
ISSN journal
03702693
Volume
423
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
369 - 372
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-2693(1998)423:3-4<369:HEMDAL>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
In noncovariant, Hamiltonian, formulation of gauge vector actions, the conditions for invariance under electric/magnetic duality transformat ions and their generator are transparent. Instead, satisfying Lorentz invariance - fulfilling the Dirac-Schwinger stress tensor commutators - becomes a complicated differential constraint on the Hamiltonian. Th e combined requirements are equivalent to the usual Lagrangian form of the duality invariance condition. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.