Faddeev-Jackiw approach to hidden symmetries

DOI10.1006/APHY.1995.1091zbMATH Open0843.58134arXivhep-th/9502042OpenAlexW1989899237MaRDI QIDQ1908554FDOQ1908554

Clovis Wotzasek

Publication date: 4 March 1996

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The study of hidden symmetries within Dirac's formalism does not possess a systematic procedure due to the lack of first-class constraints to act as symmetry generators. On the other hand, in the Faddeev-Jackiw approach, gauge and reparametrization symmetries are generated by the null eigenvectors of the sympletic matrix and not by constraints, suggesting the possibility of dealing systematically with hidden symmetries throughout this formalism. It is shown in this paper that indeed hidden symmetries of noninvariant or gauge fixed systems are equally well described by null eigenvectors of the sympletic matrix, just as the explicit invariances. The Faddeev-Jackiw approach therefore provides a systematic algorithm for treating all sorts of symmetries in an unified way. This technique is illustrated here by the SL(2,R) affine Lie algebra of the 2-D induced gravity proposed by Polyakov, which is a hidden symmetry in the canonical approach of constrained systems via Dirac's method, after conformal and reparametrization invariances have been fixed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9502042

zbMATH Keywords

hidden symmetriesFaddeev-Jackiw approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

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