WIGNER'S LITTLE GROUP AND BRST COHOMOLOGY FOR ONE-FORM ABELIAN GAUGE THEORY

DOI10.1142/S0217751X04018129zbMATH Open1080.81070arXivhep-th/0305118MaRDI QIDQ3370285FDOQ3370285

Authors: R. P. Malik 

Publication date: 7 February 2006

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the (dual-)gauge transformations for the gauge-fixed Lagrangian density and establish their intimate connection with the translation subgroup T(2) of the Wigner's little group for the free one-form Abelian gauge theory in four $(3+1)$-dimensions (4D) of spacetime. Though the relationship between the usual gauge transformation for the Abelian massless gauge field and T(2) subgroup of the little group is quite well-known, such a connection between the dual-gauge transformation and the little group is a new observation. The above connections are further elaborated and demonstrated in the framework of Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) cohomology defined in the quantum Hilbert space of states where the Hodge decomposition theorem (HDT) plays a very decisive role.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0305118

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zbMATH Keywords

BRST cohomology(co-)BRST symmetries(dual-)gauge transformationsWigner's little group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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