Magnetic Corrections to the Soft Photon Theorem

The soft photon theorem, in its standard form, requires corrections when the asymptotic particle states carry magnetic charges. These corrections are deduced using electromagnetic duality and the resulting soft formula conjectured to be exact for all Abelian gauge theories. Recent work has shown tha...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2016-01, Vol.116 (3), p.031602-031602, Article 031602
1. Verfasser: Strominger, Andrew
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The soft photon theorem, in its standard form, requires corrections when the asymptotic particle states carry magnetic charges. These corrections are deduced using electromagnetic duality and the resulting soft formula conjectured to be exact for all Abelian gauge theories. Recent work has shown that the standard soft theorem implies an infinity of conserved electric charges. The associated symmetries are identified as "large" electric gauge transformations. Here the magnetic corrections to the soft theorem are shown to imply a second infinity of conserved magnetic charges. The associated symmetries are identified as large magnetic gauge transformations. The large magnetic symmetries are naturally subsumed in a complexification of the electric ones.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.031602