Duality in a fermion-like formulation for the electromagnetic field

Abstract

We employ the Dirac-like equation for the gauge field proposed by Majorana to obtain an action that is symmetric under duality transformation. We also use the equivalence between duality and chiral symmetry in this fermion-like formulation to show how the Maxwell action can be seen as a mass term.

4 pages. Revtex. Final version to be published in Phys. Rev. D

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