GEOMETRICAL STRING and DUAL SPIN SYSTEMS

Abstract

We are able to perform the duality transformation of the spin system which was found before as a lattice realization of the string with linear action. In four and higher dimensions this spin system can be described in terms of a two-plaquette gauge Hamiltonian. The duality transformation is constructed in geometrical and algebraic language. The dual Hamiltonian represents a new type of spin system with local gauge invariance. At each vertex $ξ$ there are $d(d-1)/2$ Ising spins $Λ_{μ,ν}= Λ_{ν,μ}$, $μ\neq ν= 1,..,d$ and one Ising spin $Γ$ on every link $(ξ,ξ+e_μ)$. For the frozen spin $Γ\equiv 1$ the dual Hamiltonian factorizes into $d(d-1)/2$ two-dimensional Ising ferromagnets and into antiferromagnets in the case $Γ\equiv -1$. For fluctuating $Γ$ it is a sort of spin glass system with local gauge invariance. The generalization to $p$-branes is given.