Classical history theory of vector fields

DOI10.1063/1.1473218MaRDI QIDQ4832646zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Duncan Noltingk

Publication date 14 December 2004

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0107067

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

More general nonquantum field theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S20) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We consider the extension of classical history theory to the massive vector field and electromagnetism. It is argued that the action of the two Poincare groups introduced by Savvidou suggests that the history fields should have five components. The extra degrees of freedom introduced to make the fields five-dimensional result in an extra pair of second class constraints in the case of the massive vector field, and in an extended gauge group in the case of electromagnetism. The total gauge transformations depend on two arbitrary parameters, and contain `internal' and `external' U(1) gauge transformations as subgroups.

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