From physical symmetries to emergent gauge symmetries

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2016)084zbMATH Open1390.83055arXiv1608.07473MaRDI QIDQ1636330FDOQ1636330

C. Barceló, Raúl Carballo-Rubio, Francesco Di Filippo, L. J. Garay

Publication date: 12 June 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Gauge symmetries indicate redundancies in the description of the relevant degrees of freedom of a given field theory and restrict the nature of observable quantities. One of the problems faced by emergent theories of relativistic fields is to understand how gauge symmetries can show up in systems that contain no trace of these symmetries at a more fundamental level. In this paper we start a systematic study aimed to establish a satisfactory mathematical and physical picture of this issue, dealing first with abelian field theories. We discuss how the trivialization, due to the decoupling and lack of excitation of some degrees of freedom, of the Noether currents associated with physical symmetries leads to emergent gauge symmetries in specific situations. An example of a relativistic field theory of a vector field is worked out in detail in order to make explicit how this mechanism works and to clarify the physics behind it. The interplay of these ideas with well-known results of importance to the emergent gravity program, such as the Weinberg-Witten theorem, are discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.07473

zbMATH Keywords

effective field theoriesgauge symmetryglobal symmetriesmodels of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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