Wigner's little group, gauge transformations and dimensional descent

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/9/308MaRDI QIDQ4545302zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rabin Banerjee, Biswajit Chakraborty

Publication date 15 August 2002

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/0102191

zbMATH Keywords

gauge transformationBF theorymassive gauge theoriesmassless particlesrepresentation of groupWigner's little groupMaxwell Chern-Simons theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We propose a technique called dimensional descent to show that Wigner's little group for massless particles, which acts as a generator of gauge transformation for usual Maxwell theory, has an identical role even for topologically massive gauge theories. The examples of $BwedgeF$ theory and Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory are analyzed in details.

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