Invertibility conditions for field transformations with derivatives: toward extensions of disformal transformation with higher derivatives

Eugeny Babichev; Keisuke Izumi; Masahide Yamaguchi; Norihiro Tanahashi

Invertibility conditions for field transformations with derivatives: toward extensions of disformal transformation with higher derivatives

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arxiv 2109.00912 v2 pith:SDNYTSLH submitted 2021-09-02 hep-th astro-ph.COgr-qcmath-phmath.MP

Invertibility conditions for field transformations with derivatives: toward extensions of disformal transformation with higher derivatives

Eugeny Babichev , Keisuke Izumi , Norihiro Tanahashi , Masahide Yamaguchi This is my paper

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We discuss a field transformation from fields $\psi_a$ to other fields $\phi_i$ that involves derivatives, $\phi_i = \bar \phi_i(\psi_a, \partial_\alpha \psi_a, \ldots ;x^\mu)$, and derive conditions for this transformation to be invertible, primarily focusing on the simplest case that the transformation maps between a pair of two fields and involves up to their first derivatives. General field transformation of this type changes number of degrees of freedom, hence for the transformation to be invertible, it must satisfy certain degeneracy conditions so that additional degrees of freedom do not appear. Our derivation of necessary and sufficient conditions for invertible transformation is based on the method of characteristics, which is used to count the number of independent solutions of a given differential equation. As applications of the invertibility conditions, we show some non-trivial examples of the invertible field transformations with derivatives, and also give a rigorous proof that a simple extension of the disformal transformation involving a second derivative of the scalar field is not invertible.

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