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A New Mechanism for Gauging a Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-07-19 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We provide a mechanism of gauging a theory based on a particular way to embed a theory on a target space such that a nontrivial fibration is produced. A connection over a nontrivial fibration with monodromy provides a natural framework for a new way of gauging a theory. Moreover, properties of the global symmetry of the original theory are included in a particular way in the new theory. This mechanism for gauging a symmetry preserves the total number of degrees of freedom in distinction with the classical one. We consider a particular example to illustrate the mechanism: by reinterpreting the supermembrane with central charges as a gauged supermembrane of the compactified supermembrane according to this new sense of gauging. Further applications are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1107.3255,
  title  = {A New Mechanism for Gauging a Theory},
  author = {Maria Pilar Garcia del Moral},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.3255},
  year   = {2011}
}

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Latex, 27 pages

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