Duality symmetry in orbifolds and effective low-energy Lagrangians

Journal Article · Mon Oct 15 04:00:00 EDT 1990 · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.42.2683· OSTI ID:6313210

Molera, J M; Ovrut, B A ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, University of Pennyslvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6396 (USA)

Spacetime duality is studied in the untwisted sectors of symmetric (2,2) {ital Z}{sub {ital N}} orbifolds. The generating functional for {ital S}-matrix amplitudes is shown to be invariant under duality transformations of the background fields corresponding to moduli and non-Abelian matter scalars. Duality symmetry greatly restricts the possible forms of the low-energy effective Lagrangian. The most general such Lagrangian is constructed.

• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76ER03071
• OSTI ID: 6313210
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA), Journal Name: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA) Vol. 42:8; ISSN PRVDA; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
AMPLITUDES
CHIRALITY
COMPOSITE MODELS
CORRELATION FUNCTIONS
DUALITY
EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL
FIELD THEORIES
FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
FUNCTIONS
LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MATRICES
PARTICLE MODELS
PARTICLE PROPERTIES
POTENTIALS
QUARK MODEL
S MATRIX
SCALAR FIELDS
SCATTERING AMPLITUDES
SIGMA MODEL
SPACE-TIME
STRING MODELS
SUPERSYMMETRY
SYMMETRY