Improvement of a Conserved Current Density Versus Adding a Total Derivative to a Lagrangian Density

DOI10.1002/PROP.202200078arXiv2205.01459MaRDI QIDQ6091900FDOQ6091900

François Gieres

Publication date: 21 November 2023

Published in: Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For classical relativistic field theory in Minkowski space-time, the addition of a superpotential term to a conserved current density is trivial in the sense that it does not modify the local conservation law nor change the conserved charge, though it may allow us to obtain a current density with some improved properties. The addition of a total derivative term to a Lagrangian density is also trivial in the sense that it does not modify the equations of motion of the theory. These facts suggest that both operations are related and possibly equivalent to each other for any global symmetry of an action functional. We address this question following the study of two quite different (and well known) instances: the Callan-Coleman-Jackiw improvement of the canonical energy-momentum tensor for scalar and vector fields (providing an on-shell traceless energy-momentum tensor) and the construction of a current density satisfying a zero curvature condition for two-dimensional sigma models on deformed spaces (notably the squashed three-sphere and warped AdS spaces). These instances correspond to fairly different implementations of the general results. An appendix addresses the precise relationship between the approaches to local conservation laws based on active and passive symmetry transformations, respectively.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01459

zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawssymmetriesNoether theoremtwo-dimensional sigma modelsclassical relativistic field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

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