Charges and fluxes in Maxwell theory on compact manifolds with boundary
dc.contributor.author | Alvarez, Marcos | |
dc.contributor.author | Olive, David I. | |
dc.contributor.institution | City Univ London | |
dc.contributor.institution | Univ Coll Swansea | |
dc.contributor.institution | Mittag Leffler Inst Djursholm | |
dc.contributor.institution | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) | |
dc.contributor.institution | Kyoto Univ | |
dc.contributor.institution | NORDITA | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-05-20T14:06:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-05-20T14:06:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006-10-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | We investigate the charges and fluxes that can occur in higher-order Abelian gauge theories defined on compact space-time manifolds with boundary. The boundary is necessary to supply a destination to the electric lines of force emanating from brane sources, thus allowing non-zero net electric charges, but it also introduces new types of electric and magnetic flux. The resulting structure of currents, charges, and fluxes is studied and expressed in the language of relative homology and de Rham cohomology and the corresponding abelian groups. These can be organised in terms of a pair of exact sequences related by the Poincare-Lefschetz isomorphism and by a weaker flip symmetry exchanging the ends of the sequences. It is shown how all this structure is brought into play by the imposition of the appropriately generalised Maxwell's equations. The requirement that these equations be integrable restricts the world-volume of a permitted brane (assumed closed) to be homologous to a cycle on the boundary of space-time. All electric charges and magnetic fluxes are quantised and satisfy the Dirac quantisation condition. But through some boundary cycles there may be unquantised electric fluxes associated with quantised magnetic fluxes and so dyonic in nature. | en |
dc.description.affiliation | City Univ London, Ctr Math Sci, London EC1V 0HB, England | |
dc.description.affiliation | Univ Coll Swansea, Dept Phys, Swansea SA2 8PP, W Glam, Wales | |
dc.description.affiliation | Mittag Leffler Inst Djursholm, Djursholm, Sweden | |
dc.description.affiliation | UNESP, IFT, São Paulo, Brazil | |
dc.description.affiliation | Kyoto Univ, Yukawa Inst, Kyoto, Japan | |
dc.description.affiliation | NORDITA, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark | |
dc.description.affiliationUnesp | UNESP, IFT, São Paulo, Brazil | |
dc.format.extent | 279-305 | |
dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00220-006-0065-6 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Communications In Mathematical Physics. New York: Springer, v. 267, n. 2, p. 279-305, 2006. | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s00220-006-0065-6 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0010-3616 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11449/23450 | |
dc.identifier.wos | WOS:000240073800001 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Springer | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Communications In Mathematical Physics | |
dc.relation.ispartofjcr | 2.338 | |
dc.relation.ispartofsjr | 1,682 | |
dc.rights.accessRights | Acesso restrito | |
dc.source | Web of Science | |
dc.title | Charges and fluxes in Maxwell theory on compact manifolds with boundary | en |
dc.type | Artigo | |
dcterms.license | http://www.springer.com/open+access/authors+rights?SGWID=0-176704-12-683201-0 | |
dcterms.rightsHolder | Springer | |
unesp.campus | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT), São Paulo | pt |
Arquivos
Licença do Pacote
1 - 1 de 1
Nenhuma Miniatura disponível
- Nome:
- license.txt
- Tamanho:
- 1.71 KB
- Formato:
- Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
- Descrição: