Magnetic soft charges, dual supertranslations, and ’t Hooft line dressings
Magnetic soft charges, dual supertranslations, and ’t Hooft line dressings
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磁性软电荷、双超平移和 t Hooft 线敷料
DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.102.025001
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
R. Akhoury
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作者:
Sangmin Choi;R. Akhoury
We construct the Faddeev-Kulish asymptotic states in a quantum field theory of electric and magnetic charges. We find that there are two kind of dressings: apart from the well know (electric) Wilson line dressing, there is a magnetic counterpart which can be written as a 't Hooft line operator. The 't Hooft line dressings are charged under the magnetic large gauge transformation (LGT), but are neutral under electric LGT. This is in contrast to the Faddeev-Kulish dressings of electrons, which can be written as a Wilson line operator and are charged under electric LGT but neutral under magnetic LGT. With these dressings and the corresponding construction of the coherent states, the infrared finiteness of the theory of electric and magnetic charges is guaranteed. Even in the absence of magnetic monopoles, the electric and magnetic soft modes exhibit the electromagnetic duality of vacuum Maxwell theory. The leading magnetic dressings, like the leading electric ones, are exact in the field theory of electric and magnetic charges, in accordance with a conjecture of Strominger. We then extend the construction to perturbative quantum gravity in asymptotically flat spacetime, and construct gravitational 't Hooft line dressings that are charged under dual supertranslations. The duality between the electric and magnetic soft charges and their dressings is thus made manifest.
影响因子:
5
作者:
Huang, Yu-tin;Kol, Uri;O’Connell, Donal
通讯作者:
O’Connell, Donal