Self-interaction and gauge invariance

1970/01/01 by S. Deser · 7 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #astro-ph #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/bf00759198

published as Gen.Rel.Grav.1:9-18,1970 · Missing last reference added. 9 pages, This article, the first paper in Gen. Rel. Grav. [1 (1970) 9], is now somewhat inaccessible; the present posting is the original version, with a few subsequent references included. Updates updated

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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.

Citations

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• Invariant Theoretical Interpretation of Interaction
• Conservation of Isotopic Spin and Isotopic Gauge Invariance

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