Non-Lagrangian gauge field models are physically excluded
While non-action-generated, but identically conserved, abelian/YM gauge vectors exist, they are unsuitable for building alternate field equations, because they have no stress-tensor, hence do not permit Poincare generators and, most physically, cannot consistently couple to gravity. Separately, thei...
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| description | While non-action-generated, but identically conserved, abelian/YM gauge vectors exist, they are unsuitable for building alternate field equations, because they have no stress-tensor, hence do not permit Poincare generators and, most physically, cannot consistently couple to gravity. Separately, their geometric analogues, covariantly conserved non-Lagrangian symmetric tensors, probably do not even exist, but their weak field, abelian, counterparts do, and share the vector fields' absence of generators. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3d13159e932840daacd789f6f10e42cd2022-12-22T01:29:44ZengElsevierPhysics Letters B0370-26932019-03-01790408409Non-Lagrangian gauge field models are physically excludedS. Deser0Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, United States of America; Physics Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, United States of America; Correspondence to: Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, United States of America.While non-action-generated, but identically conserved, abelian/YM gauge vectors exist, they are unsuitable for building alternate field equations, because they have no stress-tensor, hence do not permit Poincare generators and, most physically, cannot consistently couple to gravity. Separately, their geometric analogues, covariantly conserved non-Lagrangian symmetric tensors, probably do not even exist, but their weak field, abelian, counterparts do, and share the vector fields' absence of generators.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319300693 |
| spellingShingle | S. Deser Non-Lagrangian gauge field models are physically excluded Physics Letters B |
| title | Non-Lagrangian gauge field models are physically excluded |
| title_full | Non-Lagrangian gauge field models are physically excluded |
| title_fullStr | Non-Lagrangian gauge field models are physically excluded |
| title_full_unstemmed | Non-Lagrangian gauge field models are physically excluded |
| title_short | Non-Lagrangian gauge field models are physically excluded |
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