The Double Copy of Electric-Magnetic Duality

Yu-tin Huang, Uri Kol, Donal O'Connell

Published 2019-11-14Version 1

We argue that the complex transformation relating the Schwarzschild to the Taub-NUT metric, introduced by Talbot, is in fact an electric-magnetic duality transformation. We show that at null infinity, the complex transformation can be mapped to a complexified BMS supertranslation, which rotates the supertranslation and the dual (magnetic) supertranslation charges. This can also be seen from the cubic coupling between the classical source and its background, which for Taub-NUT is given by a complex phase rotation acting on gravitational minimal couplings. The same phase rotation generates dyons from photons at the level of minimally coupled amplitudes, manifesting the double copy relation between the two solutions.