Invariant scalar product on extended Poincaré algebra

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/5/055204zbMATH Open1285.81050arXiv1308.2695OpenAlexW2059442399MaRDI QIDQ5404822FDOQ5404822

Authors: George Savvidy 

Publication date: 28 March 2014

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

Abstract: Two methods can be used to calculate explicitly the Killing form on the Lie algebras. The first one is a direct calculation of the traces of the generators in a matrix representation of the algebra, and the second one is the usage of the group invariance of the scalar product. We use both methods in our calculation of the scalar product on the extended Poincare algebra in order to have a cross check of our results. The algebra is infinite-dimensional and requires careful treatment of the infinities. The scalar product on the extended algebra found by both methods coincides and the important conclusion which follows is that Poincare generators are orthogonal to the gauge generators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.2695

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zbMATH Keywords

Yang-Mills theoryKilling formsextended gauge theoryPoincaré algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15)

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