Massive vector mesons and gauge theory

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/33/23/309zbMATH Open1005.81058arXivhep-th/9906089OpenAlexW1986156947MaRDI QIDQ4520575FDOQ4520575

Authors: Michael Dütsch, Bert Schroer 

Publication date: 13 December 2000

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

Abstract: We show that the requirements of renormalizability and physical consistency imposed on perturbative interactions of massive vector mesons fix the theory essentially uniquely. In particular physical consistency demands the presence of at least one additional physical degree of freedom which was not part of the originally required physical particle content. In its simplest realization (probably the only one) these are scalar fields as envisaged by Higgs but in the present formulation without the ``symmetry-breaking Higgs condensate. The final result agrees precisely with the usual quantization of a classical gauge theory by means of the Higgs mechanism. Our method proves an old conjecture of Cornwall, Levin and Tiktopoulos stating that the renormalization and consistency requirements of spin=1 particles lead to the gauge theory structure (i.e. a kind of inverse of 't Hooft's famous renormalizability proof in quantized gauge theories) which was based on the on-shell unitarity of the $S$-matrix. We also speculate on a possible future ghostfree formulation which avoids field coordinates altogether and is expected to reconcile the on-shell S-matrix point of view with the off-shell field theory structure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9906089

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zbMATH Keywords

Higgs mechanismrenormalizabilityphysical consistencyon-shell unitarity of the \(S\)-matrixperturbative interactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15)

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