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arxiv: hep-th/9610134 · v2 · submitted 1996-10-17 · ✦ hep-th

Local Actions with Electric and Magnetic Sources

Nathan Berkovits This is my paper
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Superstring field theory was recently used to derive a covariant action for a self-dual five-form field strength. This action is shown to be a ten-dimensional version of the McClain-Wu-Yu action. By coupling to D-branes, it can be generalized in the presence of sources. In four dimensions, this gives a local Maxwell action with electric and magnetic sources.

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