Deriving gauge symmetry and spontaneous Lorentz violation

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.06.011zbMATH Open1196.81172arXivhep-th/0610186OpenAlexW2034060170MaRDI QIDQ1960069FDOQ1960069

Authors: J. L. Chkareuli, C. Froggatt, Holger Bech Nielsen 

Publication date: 12 October 2010

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a class of field theories with a four-vector field $A_{mu}(x)$ in addition to other fields supplied with a global charge symmetry - theories which have partial gauge symmetry in the sense of only imposing it on those terms in the Lagrangian density which have derivatives as factors in them. We suppose that spontaneous Lorentz invariance breaking occurs in such a theory due to the four-vector field taking a non-zero vacuum expectation value. Under some very mild assumptions, we show that this Lorentz violation is not observable and the whole theory is practically gauge invariant. A very important presupposition for this theorem is that an initial condition is imposed on the no-derivative expressions corresponding to the early Universe being essentially in a vacuum state. This condition then remains true forever and can be interpreted as a gauge constraint. We formulate the conditions under which the spontaneous Lorentz violation becomes observable. Spontaneously broken Lorentz invariance could be seen by some primordially existing or created "fossil" charges with the property of moving through the Universe with a fixed velocity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610186

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zbMATH Keywords

partial gauge symmetryspontaneously broken Lorentz invariancevacuum state initial conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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