The dressing field method of gauge symmetry reduction, a review with examples
Reviewed by Pith T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 kernel pith:R2KK36DMrecord.jsonopen to challenge →
read the original abstract
Gauge symmetries are a cornerstone of modern physics but they come with technical difficulties when it comes to quantization, to accurately describe particles phenomenology or to extract observables in general. These shortcomings must be met by essentially finding a way to effectively reduce gauge symmetries. We propose a review of a way to do so which we call the dressing field method. We show how the BRST algebra satisfied by gauge fields, encoding their gauge transformations, is modified. We outline noticeable applications of the method, such as the electroweak sector of the Standard Model and the local twistors of Penrose.
This paper has not been read by Pith yet.
Forward citations
Cited by 3 Pith papers
-
Dimensional reduction of AdS3 Chern-Simons gravity: Schwarzian and affine boundary theories
Symmetry reduction of 3D AdS Chern-Simons gravity on toroidal boundary yields two inequivalent 1D boundary theories: standard Schwarzian and affine-deformed Schwarzian with Kac-Moody extensions.
-
How to Untwist Twisted Gauge Fields
An isomorphism is constructed between twisted gauge fields on principal bundle P and standard gauge fields on Q via larger bundle S, with cocycle class correspondence and reinterpretation of dressing fields as dynamic...
-
Weyl conformal geometry vs Riemannian geometry of Weyl gauge invariant dressed metric
Weyl geometry is equivalent to Riemannian geometry of a non-local dressed metric g*_{\mu\nu} via Wilson lines, with the quadratic and WDBI actions taking the same form in the symmetric phase.
discussion (0)
Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.