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Phys. Rev. D 55, 826–828 (1997)

Electric-magnetic black hole duality

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S. Deser
Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254

M. Henneaux
Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine C. P. 231, B-1050, Bruxelles, Belgium
Centro de Estudios Científicos de Santiago, Casilla 16443, Santiago, Chile

C. Teitelboim
Centro de Estudios Científicos de Santiago, Casilla 16443, Santiago, Chile
School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

Received 19 July 1996; published in the issue dated 15 January 1997

We generalize duality invariance for the free Maxwell action in an arbitrary background geometry to include the presence of electric and magnetic charges. In particular, it follows that the actions of equally charged electric and magnetic black holes are equal.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.55.826
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.55.826
PACS:
04.70.Bw, 04.20.Cv, 04.20.Fy, 11.30.Ly