{
  "id": "hep-th/9404183",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1994-04-29T12:00:02.000Z",
  "updated": "1994-04-29T12:00:02.000Z",
  "title": "Gauge Field Improvement,Form-Scalar Duality and Conformal Invariance",
  "authors": [
    "S. Deser",
    "A. Schwimmer"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages ,CERN-TH.7224 IAS 94/24",
  "journal": "Int.J.Mod.Phys.B8:3741-3748,1994",
  "doi": "10.1142/S0217979294001627",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th",
    "gr-qc"
  ],
  "abstract": "The problem of maintaining scale and conformal invariance in Maxwell and general N-form gauge theories away from their critical dimension d=2(N+1) is analyzed.We first exhibit the underlying group-theoretical clash between locality,gauge,Lorentz and conformal invariance require- ments. \"Improved\" traceless stress tensors are then constructed;each violates one of the above criteria.However,when d=N+2,there is a duality equivalence between N-form models and massless scalars.Here we show that conformal invariance is not lost,by constructing a quasilocal gauge invariant improved stress tensor.The correlators of the scalar theory are then reproduced,including the latter's trace anomaly.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1994-04-29T12:00:02.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "conformal invariance",
      "gauge field improvement",
      "form-scalar duality",
      "general n-form gauge theories away",
      "stress tensor"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 373084
    }
  }
}