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Reducible gauge theories in very special relativity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-12-22 v2

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the tensor field (reducible gauge) theories in the context of very special relativity (VSR). Particularly, we study the VSR gauge symmetry as well as VSR BRST symmetry of Kalb-Ramond and Abelian 3-form fields involving a fixed null vector. We observe that the Kalb-Ramond and Abelian 3-form fields and corresponding ghosts get masses in VSR framework. The effective action in VSR-type axial gauge is greatly simplified compared with the VSR-type Lorenz gauge. Further, we quantize these models using a Batalin-Vilkovisy (BV) formulation in VSR.

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@article{arxiv.1511.01063,
  title  = {Reducible gauge theories in very special relativity},
  author = {Sudhaker Upadhyay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.01063},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

14 pages, no figure, Version to appear in EPJC