Gauge invariance for the massive axion
High Energy Physics - Theory
2014-11-18 v2
Abstract
A massive gauge invariant formulation for scalar () and antisymmetric () fields with a topological coupling, which provides a mass for the axion field, is considered. The dual and local equivalence with the non-gauge invariant proposal is established, but on manifolds with non-trivial topological structure both formulations are not globally equivalent.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9712175,
title = {Gauge invariance for the massive axion},
author = {Pio Jose Arias and Adel Khoudeir},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9712175},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
one reference added, 6 pages, latex. Talk presented at the First Venezuelan Congress of Physics (Merida, December 1997)