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arxiv: 1405.4934 · v2 · pith:5HOKVS74new · submitted 2014-05-20 · ✦ hep-th

Electric-magnetic duality implies (global) conformal invariance

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keywords conformaldualityelectricinvarianceinvariantmagneticquantumtheories
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We have examined quantum theories of electric magnetic duality invariant vector fields enjoying classical conformal invariance in 4-dimensional flat spacetime. We extend Dirac's argument about "the conditions for a quantum field theory to be relativistic" to "those for a quantum theory to be conformal". We realize that electric magnetic duality invariant vector theories together with classical conformal invariance defined in 4-$d$ flat spacetime are still conformally invariant theories when they are quantized in a way that electric magnetic duality is manifest.

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