Inverse Higgs phenomena as duals of holonomic constraints

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AC4C66zbMATH Open1505.70038arXiv2103.08923OpenAlexW4206411815MaRDI QIDQ5049680FDOQ5049680

Authors: Joseph Tooby-Smith, Ben M. Gripaios 

Publication date: 11 November 2022

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

Abstract: The inverse Higgs phenomenon, which plays an important r^ole in physical systems with Goldstone bosons (such as the phonons in a crystal) involves nonholonomic mechanical constraints. By formulating field theories with symmetries and constraints in a general way using the language of differential geometry, we show that many examples of constraints in inverse Higgs phenomena fall into a special class, which we call coholonomic constraints, that are dual (in the sense of category theory) to holonomic constraints. Just as for holonomic constraints, systems with coholonomic constraints are equivalent to unconstrained systems (whose degrees of freedom are known as essential Goldstone bosons), making it easier to study their consistency and dynamics. The remaining examples of inverse Higgs phenomena in the literature require the dual of a slight generalisation of a holonomic constraint, which we call (co)meronomic. Our formalism simplifies and clarifies the many ad hoc assumptions and constructions present in the literature. In particular, it identifies which are necessary and which are merely convenient. It also opens the way to studying much more general dynamical examples, including systems which have no well-defined notion of a target space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.08923

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zbMATH Keywords

differential geometryholonomic constraintsnon-holonomic constraintsGoldstone bosonsjet manifoldsinverse Higgs constraints

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Jets in global analysis (58A20) Holonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F20)

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