TY - JOUR
T1 - Volume-preserving diffeomorphisms' versus local gauge symmetry
AU - Guendelman, E. I.
AU - Nissimov, E.
AU - Pacheva, S.
N1 - Funding Information:
’ E-mail address: [email protected]. L E-mail address: [email protected]. ’ On leave from the Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Boulevard Tsarigradsko Chaussee 72, BG-1784 Sofia, Bulgaria. E-mail addresses: [email protected], [email protected]. j Supported in part by Bulgarian NSF grant Ph-401. ’ E-mail address: [email protected].
PY - 1995/10/19
Y1 - 1995/10/19
N2 - We present a new form of quantum electrodynamics where the photons are composites made out of zero-dimensional scalar "primitives". The role of the local gauge symmetry is taken over by an infinite-dimensional global Noether symmetry - the group of volume-preserving (symplectic) diffeomorphisms of the target space of the scalar primitives. A similar construction can be carried out for higher antisymmetric tensor gauge theories. Solutions of the Maxwell equations are automatically solutions of the new system. However, the latter possesses additional non-Maxwell solutions which display some interesting new effects: (a) a magneto-hydrodynamical analogy, (b) absence of the electromagnetic self-energy for electron plane wave solutions, and (c) gauge invariant photon mass generation, where the magnitude of the generated mass is arbitrary.
AB - We present a new form of quantum electrodynamics where the photons are composites made out of zero-dimensional scalar "primitives". The role of the local gauge symmetry is taken over by an infinite-dimensional global Noether symmetry - the group of volume-preserving (symplectic) diffeomorphisms of the target space of the scalar primitives. A similar construction can be carried out for higher antisymmetric tensor gauge theories. Solutions of the Maxwell equations are automatically solutions of the new system. However, the latter possesses additional non-Maxwell solutions which display some interesting new effects: (a) a magneto-hydrodynamical analogy, (b) absence of the electromagnetic self-energy for electron plane wave solutions, and (c) gauge invariant photon mass generation, where the magnitude of the generated mass is arbitrary.
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U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(95)01109-4
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(95)01109-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0002337892
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 360
SP - 57
EP - 64
JO - Physics Letters B
JF - Physics Letters B
IS - 1-2
ER -