2003/04/10 by M. Botta Cantcheff, Cresus F. L. Godinho, C. F. L. Godinho +2 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algorithm #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Classical mechanics #Computer science #Constructive #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Duality (order theory) #Embedding #Gauge theory #Invariant (physics) #Lorentz transformation #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Pure mathematics #Quantization (signal processing) #Theoretical physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.68.065025
published as Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 065025 · 8 pages
arxiv created 2003/04/10 · openalex publication_date 2003/09/29 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · arxiv updated 2016/08/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Modifications of the electromagnetic Maxwell Lagrangian in four dimensions have been considered by some authors. One may include an explicit massive (Proca) term and a topological but not Lorentz-invariant term within certain observational limits. We find the dual-corresponding gauge-invariant version of this theory by using the recently suggested gauge embedding method. We enforce this dualization procedure by showing that, in many cases, this is actually a constructive method to find a sort of parent action, which manifestly establishes duality. We also use the gauge-invariant version of this theory to formulate a Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization and present a detailed discussion of the excitation spectrum.