Functional versus canonical quantization of a nonlocal massive vector-gauge theory

DOI10.1063/1.532677zbMATH Open0960.81052arXivhep-th/9902014OpenAlexW3104175441MaRDI QIDQ4701746FDOQ4701746

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Publication date: 21 November 1999

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

Abstract: It has been shown in literature that a possible mechanism of mass generation for gauge fields is through a topological coupling of vector and tensor fields. After integrating over the tensor degrees of freedom, one arrives at an effective massive theory that, although gauge invariant, is nonlocal. Here we quantize this nonlocal resulting theory both by path integral and canonical procedures. This system can be considered as equivalent to one with an infinite number of time derivatives and consequently an infinite number of momenta. This means that the use of the canonical formalism deserves some care. We show the consistency of the formalism we use in the canonical procedure by showing that the obtained propagators are the same as those of the (Lagrangian) path integral approach. The problem of nonlocality appears in the obtainment of the spectrum of the theory. This fact becomes very transparent when we list the infinite number of commutators involving the fields and their velocities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9902014

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zbMATH Keywords

mass generation for gauge fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15)

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