On the lightlike Lorentz violation

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135625zbMATH Open1472.81163arXiv2005.09567OpenAlexW3026452564MaRDI QIDQ823079FDOQ823079

Authors: J. L. Chkareuli, Z. Kepuladze 

Publication date: 24 September 2021

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the lightlike spontaneous Lorentz invariance violation (SLIV) appearing through the zero "length-fixing" constraint put on a gauge vector field, $A_{mu}{A}^{mu}=0$, and discuss its physical consequences in the framework of a conventional QED and beyond. Again, as in the timelike and spacelike SLIV cases, $A_{mu}{A}^{mu}=pm{M}_A^2$ ($M_A$ is a scale of SLIV), while this constraint leads to an emergence of the Nambu-Goldstone modes collected in physical photon, the SLIV itself is still left unobservable unless gauge invariance in the theory is broken. At the same time, a crucial difference with the two former cases is that the asymmetrical vacuum corresponding to the lightlike Lorentz violation appears infinitely degenerated with all other vacua including the symmetrical one. We show that this degeneracy can be lifted out by introducing an extra gauge vector field being sterile with respect to an ordinary matter, though having some potential couplings with the basic $A_{mu}$ field. A slight mixing of them makes the underlying gauge invariance to be partially broken due to which physical Lorentz invariance occurs broken as well. This may cause a variety of the Lorentz violating processes some of which are briefly discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09567

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Special relativity (83A05)

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