On local dilatation invariance

DOI10.1142/S021773231250174XMaRDI QIDQ4913340zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 5 April 2013

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2332

zbMATH Keywords

dilatationsdilationgaugeWeyl

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dilations, extensions, compressions of linear operators (47A20) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: The relationship between local Weyl scaling invariant models and local dilatation invariant actions is critically scrutinized. While actions invariant under local Weyl scalings can be constructed in a straightforward manner, actions invariant under local dilatation transformations can only be achieved in a very restrictive case. The invariant couplings of matter fields to an Abelian vector field carrying a non-trivial scaling weight can be easily built, but an invariant Abelian vector kinetic term can only be realized when the local scale symmetry is spontaneously broken.

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