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Electric-magnetic duality and renormalization in curved spacetimes
Aitor LandeteJosé Navarro-salasIván Agullósubject
High Energy Physics - TheoryPhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsQuantum field theory in curved spacetimeScalar field theoryConformal field theoryFísicaFOS: Physical sciencesDuality (optimization)General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)Scale invariance16. Peace & justiceGeneral Relativity and Quantum CosmologyRenormalizationGeneral Relativity and Quantum CosmologyHigh Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)Conformal symmetryQuantum mechanicsScalar fieldMathematical physicsdescription
We point out that the duality symmetry of free electromagnetism does not hold in the quantum theory if an arbitrary classical gravitational background is present. The symmetry breaks in the process of renormalization, as also happens with conformal invariance. We show that a similar duality-anomaly appears for a massless scalar field in $1+1$ dimensions.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-23 | Physical Review D |