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关于规范不变性和因果传播的注记

Note on Gauge Invariance and Causal Propagation

Marc Henneaux, Rakibur Rahman

摘要:

规范不变系统的相互作用受到几个一致性要求的严格约束。一个是保持规范对称性的数量,另一个是因果传播。对于低自旋场,重点通常放在规范不变性上,而规范不变性本身恰好是非常有选择性的。我们证明了一个明确的例子,但是,规范不变性,虽然不可或缺的建设相互作用,可能不足以作为一个一致性条件。展示这一特征的例子是无质量自旋3/2场与电磁场耦合的理论。我们证明了这个系统允许一个电磁背景,其中自旋3/2的规范场可能比光运动得更快。要求因果传播排除了否则允许规范不变耦合。这强调了因果分析作为相互作用规范场系统的独立检验的重要性。我们评论的影响,允许新的自由度和非局部性的理论,高导数重力和瓦西里耶夫的高自旋理论。

英文摘要:

Interactions of gauge-invariant systems are severely constrained by several consistency requirements. One is the preservation of the number of gauge symmetries, another is causal propagation. For lower-spin fields, the emphasis is usually put on gauge invariance that happens to be very selective by itself. We demonstrate with an explicit example, however, that gauge invariance, albeit indispensable for constructing interactions, may not suffice as a consistency condition. The chosen example that exhibits this feature is the theory of a massless spin-3/2 field coupled to electromagnetism. We show that this system admits an electromagnetic background in which the spin-3/2 gauge field may move faster than light. Requiring causal propagation rules out otherwise allowed gauge-invariant couplings. This emphasizes the importance of causality analysis as an independent test for a system of interacting gauge fields. We comment on the implications of allowing new degrees of freedom and non-locality in a theory, on higher-derivative gravity and Vasiliev's higher-spin theories.

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