THE MEMBRANE ABELIAN HIGGS-MODEL

被引：5

作者：

AURILIA, A

LEGOVINI, F

SPALLUCCI, E

机构：

[1] UNIV TRIESTE,DIPARTIMENTO FIS TEOR,I-34014 TRIESTE,ITALY

[2] IST NAZL FIS NUCL,I-34014 TRIESTE,ITALY

来源：

PHYSICS LETTERS B | 1991年 / 264卷 / 1-2期

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D O I：

10.1016/0370-2693(91)90705-U

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We develop the first and second quantized version of a model consisting of a closed bosonic relativistic membrane coupled to a three-index gauge potential A-mu-nu-rho(x). The model is reparametrization invariant as well as invariant under a generalized U (1)-gauge transformation and is developed in analogy to scalar QED. We call it the membrane abelian Higgs model. For imaginary surface tension the absolute value of the membrane field has a non-vanishing vacuum expectation value and the gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken; as a consequence, the gauge field A-mu-nu-rho(x) acquires a mass while the Goldstone bosons disappear from the physical spectrum. However, unlike the usual Higgs mechanism, the physical spectrum consists of spin-0 (pseudoscalar) particles.

引用

页码：69 / 74

页数：6

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