Restricted Weyl symmetry and spontaneous symmetry breakdown of conformal symmetry

DOI10.1142/S0217732321502035MaRDI QIDQ5067301zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ichiro Oda

Publication date 1 April 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04694

zbMATH Keywords

conformal symmetryrestricted Weyl symmetryspontaneous symmetry breakdown

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry (51B20) Differential geometric aspects in vector and tensor analysis (53A45) Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We elucidate the relation between the restricted Weyl symmetry and spontaneous symmetry breakdown of conformal symmetry. Using a scalar-tensor gravity, we show that the restricted Weyl symmetry leads to spontaneous symmetry breakdown of a global scale symmetry when the vacuum expectation value of a scalar field takes a non-zero value. It is then shown that this spontaneous symmetry breakdown induces spontaneous symmetry breakdown of special conformal symmetry in a flat Minkowski space-time, but the resultant Nambu-Goldstone boson is not an independent physical mode but expressed in terms of the derivative of the dilaton which is the Nambu-Goldstone boson of the global scale symmetry. In other words, the theories which are invariant under the general coordinate transformation and the restricted Weyl transformation exhibit a Nambu-Goldstone phase where both special conformal transformation and dilatation are spontaneously broken while preserving the Poincar'{e} symmetry.

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