We show that 4D gauge theories with Green-Schwarz anomaly cancellation and possible generalized Chern-Simons terms admit a formulation that is manifestly covariant with respect to electric/magnetic duality transformations. This generalizes previous work on the symplectically covariant formulation of anomaly-free gauge theories as they typically occur in extended supergravity, and now also includes general theories with (pseudo)anomalous gauge interactions as they may occur in global or local N = 1 supersymmetry. This generalization is achieved by relaxing the linear constraint on the embedding tensor so as to allow for a symmetric 3-tensor related to electric and/or magnetic quantum anomalies in these theories. Apart from electric and magnetic gauge fields, the resulting Lagrangians also feature two-form fields and can accommodate various unusual duality frames as they often appear, e.g., in string compactifications with background fluxes. © SISSA 2008.
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De Rydt, J., Schmidt, T. T., Trigiante, M., Van Proeyen, A., & Zagermann, M. (2008). Electric/magnetic duality for chiral gauge theories with anomaly cancellation. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2008(12). https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/105
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