Gauged Wess-Zumino terms for a general coset space

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2019.114676MaRDI QIDQ2295538zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tomáš Brauner, Helena Kolešová

Publication date 13 February 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05310

zbMATH Keywords

Nambu-Goldstone bosonsWess-Zumino terms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: The low-energy physics of systems with spontaneously broken continuous symmetry is dominated by the ensuing Nambu-Goldstone bosons. It has been known for half a century how to construct invariant Lagrangian densities for the low-energy effective theory of Nambu-Goldstone bosons. Contributions, invariant only up to a surface term -- also known as the Wess-Zumino (WZ) terms -- are more subtle, and as a rule are topological in nature. Although WZ terms have been studied intensively in theoretically oriented literature, explicit expressions do not seem to be available in sufficient generality in a form suitable for practical applications. Here we construct the WZ terms in $d=1,2,3,4$ spacetime dimensions for an arbitrary compact, semisimple and simply connected symmetry group $G$ and its arbitrary connected unbroken subgroup $H$, provided that the $d$-th homotopy group of the coset space $G/H$ is trivial. Coupling to gauge fields for the whole group $G$ is included throughout the construction. We list a number of explicit matrix expressions for the WZ terms in four spacetime dimensions, including those for QCD-like theories, that is vector-like gauge theories with fermions in a complex, real or pseudoreal representation of the gauge group.

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