Montonen–Olive duality conjecture for pure Yang–Mills theory
Let be a gauge group with gauge coupling , and let be a group whose Lie algebra satisfies . Let and denote the character and cocharacter lattices, and let tildes denote the dual lattices. Montonen–Olive duality conjecture. Electric-magnetic duality maps pure Yang–Mills theory with gauge group and gauge coupling to pure Yang–Mills theory with gauge group and gauge coupling , where
or, dually,
This conjecture proposes an electric-magnetic exchange between gauge groups determined by dual character and cocharacter lattices. The supplied text does not state whether it has been proved or disproved.
References
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Clarence Kineider, Georgios Kydonakis, Eugen Rogozinnikov, Valdo Tatitscheff and Alexander Thomas, “Spectral Networks: Bridging higher-rank Teichmüller theory and BPS states”, arXiv:2412.03588 (2026).
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