2014/05/31 by Eric Bergshoeff, Joaquim Gomis, Giorgio Longhi · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/31/20/205009
22 pages, reference added
arxiv created 2014/05/31 · arxiv updated 2015/06/19
We investigate particles whose dynamics is invariant under the Carroll group. Although a single free such Carroll particle has no non-trivial dynamics (`the Carroll particle does not move') we show that there exists non-trivial dynamics for a set of interacting Carroll particles. Furthermore, we gauge the Carroll algebra and couple the Carroll particle to these gauge fields. It turns out that for such a coupled system even a single Carroll particle can have non-trivial dynamics.