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A Study of Fermions Coupled to Gauge and Gravitational Fields on a Cylinder

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v2

Abstract

Fermions on a cylinder coupled to gravity and gauge fields are examined by studying the geometric action associated with the symmetries of such a system. The gauge coupling constant is shown to be constrained and the effect of gravity on the masses is discussed. Furthermore, we introduce a new gravitational theory which couples to the fermions by promoting the coadjoint vector of the diffeomorphism sector to a dynamical variable. This system, together with the gauge sector is shown to be equivalent to a one dimensional system.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9401039,
  title  = {A Study of Fermions Coupled to Gauge and Gravitational Fields on a Cylinder},
  author = {R. P. Lano and V. G. J. Rodgers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9401039},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

16 pages, UI-94-2 (Some minor typographical errors are cleaned up.)