Conformal invariance of massless Duffin–Kemmer–Petiau theory in Riemannian spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/22/14/017MaRDI QIDQ5315917zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rodolfo Casana, B. M. Pimentel, R. G. Teixeira, José T. Lunardi

Publication date 12 September 2005

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0311042

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20)

Abstract: We investigate the conformal invariance of massless Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau theory coupled to riemannian space-times. We show that, as usual, in the minimal coupling procedure only the spin 1 sector of the theory -which corresponds to the electromagnetic field- is conformally invariant. We show also that the conformal invariance of the spin 0 sector can be naturally achieved by introducing a compensating term in the lagrangian. Such a procedure -besides not modifying the spin 1 sector- leads to the well-known conformal coupling between the scalar curvature and the massless Klein-Gordon-Fock field. Going beyond the riemannian spacetimes, we briefly discuss the effects of a nonvanishing torsion in the scalar case.

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