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Dynamics of Carroll Particles

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-19 v2

Abstract

We investigate particles whose dynamics is invariant under the Carroll group. Although a single free such Carroll particle has no non-trivial dynamics (`the Carroll particle does not move') we show that there exists non-trivial dynamics for a set of interacting Carroll particles. Furthermore, we gauge the Carroll algebra and couple the Carroll particle to these gauge fields. It turns out that for such a coupled system even a single Carroll particle can have non-trivial dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.1405.2264,
  title  = {Dynamics of Carroll Particles},
  author = {Eric Bergshoeff and Joaquim Gomis and Giorgio Longhi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.2264},
  year   = {2015}
}

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22 pages, reference added

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