Self-interaction and gauge invariance
Abstract
A simple unified closed form derivation of the non-linearities of the Einstein, Yang-Mills and spinless (e.g. chiral) meson systems is given. For the first two, the non-linearities are required by locality and consistency; in all cases, they are determined by the conserved currents associated with the initial (linear) gauge invariance of the first kind. Use of first-order formalism leads uniformly to a simple cubic self-interaction.
- Publication:
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General Relativity and Gravitation
- Pub Date:
- March 1970
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00759198
- arXiv:
- arXiv:gr-qc/0411023
- Bibcode:
- 1970GReGr...1....9D
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Missing last reference added. 9 pages, This article, the first paper in Gen. Rel. Grav. [1 (1970) 9], is now somewhat inaccessible