Antisymmetric tensor Zp gauge symmetries in field theory and string theory
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UAM. Departamento de Física TeóricaPublisher
Springer VerlagDate
2014-01-15Citation
10.1007/JHEP01(2014)059
Journal of High Energy Physics 2014.1 (2014): 059
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1126-6708 (online)DOI
10.1007/JHEP01(2014)059Funded by
This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under grants FPA2010-20807, FPA2012-32828, Consolider-CPAN (CSD2007-00042), and SEV-2012-0249 of the Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa Programme, by the Comunidad de Madrid under grant HEPHACOS-S2009/ESP1473, and by the European Commission under contract ERC-2012-ADG 20120216-320421 (SPLE Advanced Grant) and PITN-GA-2009-237920 (UNILHC network). M.B-G. acknowledges the finantial support of the FPU grant AP2009- 0327. G.R. acknowledges the support of Campus Excelencia Internacional UAM+CSIC.Project
Comunidad de Madrid. S2009/ESP-1473/HEPHACOSEditor's Version
http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1007/JHEP01(2014)059Subjects
Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; Discrete and Finite Symmetries; Flux compactifications; FísicaNote
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© 2014 Author(s).Abstract
We consider discrete gauge symmetries in D dimensions arising as remnants of broken continuous gauge symmetries carried by general antisymmetric tensor fields, rather than by standard 1-forms. The lagrangian for such a general Z p gauge theory can be described in terms of a r-form gauge field made massive by a (r - 1)-form, or other dual realizations, that we also discuss. The theory contains charged topological defects of different dimensionalities, generalizing the familiar charged particles and strings in D = 4. We describe realizations in string theory compactifications with torsion cycles, or with background field strength fluxes. We also provide examples of non-abelian discrete groups, for which the group elements are associated with charged objects of different dimensionality.
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