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EnglishWe develop the first and second quantized version of a model consisting of a closed bosonic relativistic membrane coupled to a three-index gauge potential Aμνϱ(x). The model is reparametrization invariant as well as invariant under a generalized U(1)-gauge transformation and is developed in analogy to scalar QED. We call it the membrane abelian Higgs model. For imaginary surface tension the absolute value of the membrane field has a non-vanishing vacuum expectation value and the gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken; as a consequence, the gauge field Aμνϱ(x) acquires a mass while the Goldstone bosons disappear from the physical spectrum. However, unlike the usual Higgs mechanism, the physical spectrum consist of spin-0 (pseudoscalar) particles.
| Titolo: | The membrane abelian Higgs model |
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| Data di pubblicazione: | 1991 |
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| Abstract: | We develop the first and second quantized version of a model consisting of a closed bosonic relativistic membrane coupled to a three-index gauge potential Aμνϱ(x). The model is reparametrization invariant as well as invariant under a generalized U(1)-gauge transformation and is developed in analogy to scalar QED. We call it the membrane abelian Higgs model. For imaginary surface tension the absolute value of the membrane field has a non-vanishing vacuum expectation value and the gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken; as a consequence, the gauge field Aμνϱ(x) acquires a mass while the Goldstone bosons disappear from the physical spectrum. However, unlike the usual Higgs mechanism, the physical spectrum consist of spin-0 (pseudoscalar) particles. |
| Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11368/2621046 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(91)90705-U |
| Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articolo in Rivista |
