Local symmetries of the non-Abelian two-form

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/41/310MaRDI QIDQ4469897zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Amitabha Lahiri

Publication date 22 June 2004

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0109220

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: It is proposed that a non-Abelian adjoint two-form in BF type theories transform inhomogeneously under the gauge group. The resulting restrictions on invariant actions are discussed. The auxiliary one-form which is required for maintaining vector gauge symmetry transforms like a second gauge field, and hence cannot be fully absorbed in the two-form. But it can be replaced, via a vector gauge transformation, by the usual gauge field, leading to gauge equivalences between different types of theories. A new type of symmetry also appears, one which depends on local functions but cannot be generated by constraints. It is connected to the identity in the limit of a vanishing global parameter, so it should be called a semiglobal symmetry. The corresponding conserved currents and BRST charges are parametrized by the space of flat connections.

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