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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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