2002/06/30 by Pio J. Arias, Pío J. Arias, Lorenzo Leal +2 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Theoretical and Computational Physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.67.025020
published as Phys.Rev.D67:025020,2003 · 26 pages, LaTeX. The discussion about the equivalence between the Proca model and two seldual models, with opposite spins, was eliminated. Typos corrected
arxiv created 2002/10/03 · openalex publication_date 2003/01/30 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/08/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Massive theories of Abelian p forms are quantized in a generalized path representation that leads to a description of the phase space in terms of a pair of dual nonlocal operators analogous to the Wilson loop and the 't Hooft disorder operators. Special attention is devoted to the study of the duality between the topologically massive and self-dual models in 2+1 dimensions. It is shown that these models share a geometric representation in which just one nonlocal operator suffices to describe the observables.