SPACE–TIME DEPENDENT LAGRANGIANS AND WEAK–STRONG DUALITY: SINE-GORDON AND MASSIVE THIRRING MODELS

Abstract

The formalism of space–time dependent Lagrangians developed in Ref. 1 is applied to the sine-Gordon and massive Thirring models. It is shown that the well-known equivalence of these models (in the context of weak–strong duality) can be understood in this approach from the same considerations as described in Ref. 1 for electromagnetic duality. A further new result is that all these can naturally be linked to the fact that the holographic principle has analogues at length scales much larger than quantum gravity. There is also the possibility of noncommuting coordinates residing on the boundaries.