2-form gauge field theories and ``no go for Yang-Mills relativistic actions

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2003.11.069zbMATH Open1246.81111arXivhep-th/0311183OpenAlexW1990456390MaRDI QIDQ447040FDOQ447040

Authors: Marcelo Botta Cantcheff 

Publication date: 9 September 2012

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

Abstract: The transformation properties of a Kalb-Ramond field are those of a gauge potential. However, it is not clear what is the group structure to which these transformations are associated. In this paper, we complete a program started in previous articles in order to clarify this question. Using the spectral theorem, we improve and generalize previous approaches and find the possible group structures underneath the 2-form gauge potential as extensions of Lie groups, when its representations are assumed to act into any tensor (or spinor) space with inner product. We also obtain a fundamental representation where a two-form field turns out to be a connection on a flat Euclidean basis manifold, with a corresponding canonical curvature. However, we show that these objects are not associated to space-time tensors and, in particular, that a standard Yang-Mills action is not relativistically invariant, except (as expected) in the Abelian case. This is our main result, from the physical point of view.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0311183

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zbMATH Keywords

Kalb-Ramond fieldYang-Mills relativistic actions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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