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Published April 21, 2011 | Submitted
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No local Maxwell duality invariance

Deser, S. ORCID icon

Abstract

I show, in canonical formulation of flat space Maxwell theory, that its duality rotation invariance must have a constant parameter, cannot be promoted to a local one by adding a compensating field and that these conclusions hold in the curved space Maxwell–Einstein extension.

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© 2011 IOP Publishing. Received 24 December 2010; Published 23 March 2011. I thank M Henneaux for correspondence. This work was supported by NSF PHY 07-57190 and DOE DE-FG02-164 92ER40701 grants.

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