Non-Lagrangian Gauge Field Models are Physically Excluded
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2019-03-14 v2
Abstract
While non-action generated, but identically conserved,-abelian and non-gauge vectors exist, they are unsuitable for building alternate field equations because they have no stress-tensor, hence do not permit Poincare generators and, most phiyically, cannot couple consistently to gravity. Separately, their geometric analogues -covariantly conserved non-Lagrangian symmetric tensors-probably do not exist, but their weak field, abelian counterparts do, and share the vector fields' absence of generators.
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@article{arxiv.1901.00932,
title = {Non-Lagrangian Gauge Field Models are Physically Excluded},
author = {S. Deser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.00932},
year = {2019}
}
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