nLab David Olive

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Selected writings

On electric-magnetic duality (S-duality):

• Claus Montonen, David Olive, Magnetic Monopoles As Gauge Particles? Phys. Lett. B72 (1977) 117-120 (spire:121372, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(77)90076-4)

• Peter Goddard, Jean Nuyts, David Olive, Gauge Theories And Magnetic Charge, Nucl. Phys. B 125 (1977) 1-28 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(77)90221-8, spire:111435]

On the Wess-Zumino-Witten model 2d CFT (via Kac-Moody algebra and Virasoro algebra):

• Peter Goddard, David Olive, Kac-Moody and Virasoro algebras in relation to quantum physics, International Journal of Modern Physics A 01 02 (1986) 303-414 [doi:10.1142/S0217751X86000149, spire:18583]

Related $n$Lab entries

• S-matrix

• Montonen-Olive duality (S-duality)

• BPS state

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