2003/08/31 by Chris Hull, Christopher M Hull, Aybike Catal-Ozer +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2003/10/034
published as JHEP 0310 (2003) 034 · Latex, 26 pages. References added
arxiv created 2003/09/15 · openalex publication_date 2003/10/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We consider generalised Scherk Schwarz reductions of supergravity and superstring theories with twists by electromagnetic dualities that are symmetries of the equations of motion but not of the action, such as the S-duality of D=4, N=4 super-Yang-Mills coupled to supergravity. The reduction cannot be done on the action itself, but must be done either on the field equations or on a duality invariant form of the action, such as one in the doubled formalism in which potentials are introduced for both electric and magnetic fields. The resulting theory in odd-dimensions has massive form fields satisfying a self-duality condition dA ∼ m*A. We construct such theories in D=3,5,7.