2003/11/20 by Marcelo Botta Cantcheff, Marcelo Botta Cantcheff
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.11.069
published as Phys.Lett. B581 (2004) 119-124 · To be published in Phys. Lett. B
arxiv created 2003/11/20 · openalex publication_date 2003/12/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The transformation properties of a Kalb-Ramond field are those of a gauge potential. However, it is not clear what is the group structure to which these transformations are associated. In this paper, we complete a program started in previous articles in order to clarify this question. Using the spectral theorem, we improve and generalize previous approaches and find the possible group structures underneath the 2-form gauge potential as extensions of Lie groups, when its representations are assumed to act into any tensor (or spinor) space with inner product. We also obtain a fundamental representation where a two-form field turns out to be a connection on a flat Euclidean basis manifold, with a corresponding canonical curvature. However, we show that these objects are not associated to space-time tensors and, in particular, that a standard Yang-Mills action is not relativistically invariant, except (as expected) in the Abelian case. This is our main result, from the physical point of view.