Antisymmetric tensor gauge theories and non-linear σ-models |
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Authors: | Daniel Z Freedman PK Townsend |
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Institution: | Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, L.I., New York 11794, USA;CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva 23, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | Antisymmetric tensor fields Bμν subject to the gauge transformation δBμν = ?μξν ? ?νξμ can describe spinless particles. We investigate the properties of field theories with a “non-abelian generalization” of this invariance. One class of such theories is equivalent to non-linear principal chiral σ-models, another to massive Yang-Mills theories. A supersymmetric analogue in 2 + 2 superspace is constructed and leads to the supersymmetric σ-model defined on a general riemannian manifold. |
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