Duality and Confinement in Massive Antisymmetric Tensor Gauge Theories

Abstract

We extend the duality between massive and topologically massive antisymmetric tensor gauge theories in arbitrary space-time dimensions to include topological defects. We show explicitly that the condensation of these defects leads, in 4 dimensions, to confinement of electric strings in the two dual models. The dual phase, in which magnetic strings are confined is absent. The presence of the confinement phase explicitly found in the 4-dimensional case, is generalized, using duality arguments, to arbitrary space-time dimensions.

harvmac, 12 pages, no figures, corrected typos. To appear in Phys. Lett. B

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