Duality and Confinement in Massive Antisymmetric Tensor Gauge Theories

We extend the duality between massive and topologically massive antisymmetric tensor gauge theories in arbitrary space-time dimensions to include topological defects. We show explicitly that the condensation of these defects leads, in 4 dimensions, to confinement of electric strings in the two dual models. The dual phase, in which magnetic strings are confined is absent. The presence of the confinement phase explicitely found in the 4-dimensional case, is generalized, using duality arguments, to arbitrary space-time dimensions. CERN−TH/2001− 104 April 2001 * Supported by a Swiss National Science Foundation fellowship.