The special Galileon as Goldstone of diffeomorphisms

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2021)096MaRDI QIDQ2024263zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Diederik Roest

Publication date 3 May 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09559

zbMATH Keywords

effective field theoriesspace-time symmetriesspontaneous symmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Effective quantum field theories (81T12) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Abstract: The special Galileon stands out amongst scalar field theories due to its soft limits, non-linear symmetries and scattering amplitudes. This prompts the question what the origin of its underlying symmetry is. We show that it is intimately connected to general relativity: the special Galileon is the Goldstone mode of the affine group, consisting of linear coordinate transformations, analogous to the dilaton for conformal symmetries. We construct the corresponding metric, and discuss various relations to gravity, Yang-Mills and the non-linear sigma-model.

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