Spontaneous symmetry breaking in Lorentz violating background

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 1850021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Masood ◽  
Mushtaq B. Shah ◽  
Prince A. Ganai
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theory ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Special Relativity ◽  
Hilbert Spaces ◽  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Lorentz Symmetry ◽  
Field Dependent ◽  
Very Special Relativity

In this paper, we study spontaneous symmetry breaking of gauge theories in a Lorentz violating background. Here, Lorentz symmetry will be broken down to its subgroup using the formalism of very special relativity. The breaking of the Lorentz symmetry will modify the gauge theories, and this will in turn modify the Higgs mechanisms for such theories. We will explicitly demonstrate that the different Hilbert spaces in various gauges of this theory can be related to each other through the gaugeon formalism. We will also discuss the FFBRST transformation for this theory, and observe that gaugeon formalism can be obtained from same. Thus, by making the BRST parameter finite and field dependent, we can relate different Hilbert spaces in different gauges for a gauge theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking in VSR.

A study of 3-form gauge theories in the Lorentz violating background

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (07) ◽  
pp. 1850106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mushtaq Bashir Shah ◽  
Prince Ahmad Ganai
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theory ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Lorentz Symmetry ◽  
Symmetry Violation ◽  
Generating Functional ◽  
Form Theory ◽  
Group A ◽  
Lorentz Symmetry Breaking

We study the Lorentz symmetry breaking of the 3-form gauge theory down to its sub-group. A 3-form gauge theory is studied in such a Lorentz violating background and these symmetry violation effects will affect the aspects of such a gauge theory. Also, we study the gaugeon formalism and FFBRST of 3-form theory in such a background. It is seen that the generating functional gets modified. With this, we obtain a connection between covariant and noncovariant gauges of such a gauge theory. Furthermore, we study the Batalin–Vilkovisky (BV) formulation of such a gauge theory in such a Lorentz violating background.

scholarly journals Extended Nambu models: Their relation to gauge theories

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (14) ◽  
pp. 1750077 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Escobar ◽  
L. F. Urrutia
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theory ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Lorentz Symmetry ◽  
Current Conservation ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Gauge Fixing ◽  
Lorentz Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Arbitrary Gauge

Yang–Mills theories supplemented by an additional coordinate constraint, which is solved and substituted in the original Lagrangian, provide examples of the so-called Nambu models, in the case where such constraints arise from spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking. Some explicit calculations have shown that, after additional conditions are imposed, Nambu models are capable of reproducing the original gauge theories, thus making Lorentz violation unobservable and allowing the interpretation of the corresponding massless gauge bosons as the Goldstone bosons arising from the spontaneous symmetry breaking. A natural question posed by this approach in the realm of gauge theories is to determine under which conditions the recovery of an arbitrary gauge theory from the corresponding Nambu model, defined by a general constraint over the coordinates, becomes possible. We refer to these theories as extended Nambu models (ENM) and emphasize the fact that the defining coordinate constraint is not treated as a standard gauge fixing term. At this level, the mechanism for generating the constraint is irrelevant and the case of spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking is taken only as a motivation, which naturally bring this problem under consideration. Using a nonperturbative Hamiltonian analysis we prove that the ENM yields the original gauge theory after we demand current conservation for all time, together with the imposition of the Gauss laws constraints as initial conditions upon the dynamics of the ENM. The Nambu models yielding electrodynamics, Yang–Mills theories and linearized gravity are particular examples of our general approach.

scholarly journals Gauge theory approach to branes and spontaneous symmetry breaking

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (03) ◽  
pp. 1750009 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Zheltukhin
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theory ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Vector Fields ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Tensor Fields ◽  
Broken Symmetries ◽  
Goldstone Bosons ◽  
Dimensional Minkowski Space ◽  
Poincaré Symmetry

We discuss the gauge theory approach to consideration of the Nambu–Goldstone bosons as gauge and vector fields represented by the Cartan forms of spontaneously broken symmetries. The approach is generalized to describe the fundamental branes in terms of [Formula: see text]-dimensional worldvolume gauge and massless tensor fields consisting of the Nambu–Goldstone bosons associated with the spontaneously broken Poincaré symmetry of the [Formula: see text]-dimensional Minkowski space.

Gauge hierarchies for chiral SU(N) × SU(N) groups

1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (16) ◽  
pp. 1660-1663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shalom Eliezer
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Vacuum Expectation ◽  
Coupling Constants ◽  
Spontaneous Breaking ◽  
Text Representation ◽  
Algebraic Equations ◽  
Expectation Values ◽  
Special Case

We have presented a special case where a hierarchy of spontaneous breaking of the symmetries can be achieved in conventional gauge theories (i.e. the Higgs scalars are elementary bosons and the coupling constants of the quartic interactions are small). We break spontaneously the chiral group SU(N) × SU(N) with Higgs scalars transforming like the (N, [Formula: see text]) representation of SU(N) × SU(N). By minimizing the potential we obtain a set of algebraic equations of the type[Formula: see text]where ηj are the vacuum expectation values of the Higgs scalars and μi2 and Aij are parameters. In order to get a hierarchy of spontaneous symmetry breaking we obtain the condition det Aij = 0.

scholarly journals Effective Abelian-Higgs Theory from SU(2) gauge field theory

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (15) ◽  
pp. 3481-3487 ◽  
Author(s):  
VLADIMIR DZHUNUSHALIEV ◽  
DOUGLAS SINGLETON ◽  
DANNY DHOKARH
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Gauge Theory ◽  
Scalar Field ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Mass Term ◽  
Gauge Field Theory ◽  
Ginzburg Landau ◽  
Flux Tubes ◽  
Color Confinement

In the present work we show that it is possible to arrive at a Ginzburg-Landau (GL) like equation from pure SU (2) gauge theory. This has a connection to the dual superconducting model for color confinement where color flux tubes permanently bind quarks into color neutral states. The GL Lagrangian with a spontaneous symmetry breaking potential, has such (Nielsen-Olesen) flux tube solutions. The spontaneous symmetry breaking requires a tachyonic mass for the effective scalar field. Such a tachyonic mass term is obtained from the condensation of ghost fields.

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