DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.104.025017
IAA authors:
Barceló, Carlos;García-Moreno, Gerardo
Authors:
Barceló, Carlos;Carballo-Rubio, Raúl;Garay, Luis J.;García-Moreno, Gerardo
Abstract:
Gauge symmetries remove unphysical states and guarantee that field theories are free from the pathologies associated with these states. In this work we find a set of general conditions that guarantee the removal of unphysical states in field theories describing interacting vector fields. These conditions are obtained through the extension of a mechanism for the emergence of gauge symmetries proposed in a previous article [C. Barceló et al. J. High Energy Phys. 10 (2016) 084, 10.1007/JHEP10(2016)084] in order to account for non-Abelian gauge symmetries, and are the following: low-energy Lorentz invariance, emergence of massless vector fields describable by an action quadratic in those fields and their derivatives, and self-coupling to a conserved current associated with specific rigid symmetries. Using a bootstrapping procedure, we prove that these conditions are equivalent to the emergence of gauge symmetries and, therefore, guarantee that any theory satisfying them must be equivalent to a Yang-Mills theory at low energies.
URL:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2021PhRvD.104b5017B/abstract
Keywords:
High Energy Physics - Theory;General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology