2000/02/29 by Yan-Gang Miao, R. Manvelyan, Ruben Manvelyan +2 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Algebra and Geometry #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(00)00502-5
published as Phys.Lett. B482 (2000) 264 · Latex, 13 pages, no figures, minor typos corrected
arxiv created 2000/05/30 · openalex publication_date 2000/06/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The self-duality of chiral p-forms was originally investigated by Pasti, Sorokin and Tonin in a manifestly Lorentz covariant action with non-polynomial auxiliary fields. The investigation was then extended to other chiral p-form actions. In this paper we point out that the self-duality appears in a wider context of theoretical models that relate to chiral p-forms. We demonstrate this by considering the interacting model of Floreanini-Jackiw chiral bosons and gauge fields, the generalized chiral Schwinger model (GCSM) and the latter's gauge invariant formulation, and discover that the self-duality of the GCSM corresponds to the vector and axial vector current duality.