Composite Vector and Tensor Gauge Fields, and Volume-Preserving Diffeomorphisms
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We describe new theories of composite vector and tensor (p-form) gauge fields made out of zero-dimensional constituent scalar fields (``primitives''). The local gauge symmetry is replaced by an infinite-dimensional global Noether symmetry -- the group of volume-preserving (symplectic) diffeomorphisms of the target space of the scalar primitives. We find additional non-Maxwell and non-Kalb-Ramond solutions describing topologically massive tensor gauge field configurations in odd space-time dimensions. Generalization to the supersymmetric case is also sketched.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9903245,
title = {Composite Vector and Tensor Gauge Fields, and Volume-Preserving Diffeomorphisms},
author = {Eduardo I. Guendelman and Emil Nissimov and Svetlana Pacheva},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9903245},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, LaTeX209, to appear in the Proceedings of the Annual Physics Science Fete 1999, Sde-Boker, Israel