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Local Gauss Law and Local Gauge Symmetries in QFT

In: Trails in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

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  • Franco Strocchi

    (Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Fisica “E. Fermi”)

Abstract

Local gauge symmetries reduce to the identity on the observables, as well as on the physical states (apart from reflexes of the local gauge group topology) and therefore their use in Quantum Field Theory (QFT) asks for a justification of their strategic role. They play an intermediate role in deriving the validity of Local Gauss Laws on the physical states (for the currents which generate the related global gauge group); conversely, we show that local gauge symmetries arise whenever a vacuum representation of a local field algebra $$\mathcal{F}$$ is used for the description/construction of physical states satisfying Local Gauss Laws, just as global compact gauge groups arise for the description of localizable states labeled by superselected quantum numbers. The above relation suggests that the Gauss operator $$\bf{G}$$ , which by locality cannot vanish in $$\mathcal{F}$$ , provides an intrinsic characterization of the realizations of a gauge QFT in terms of a local field algebra $$\mathcal{F}$$ and of the related local gauge symmetries generated by $$\bf{G}$$ .

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  • Franco Strocchi, 2023. "Local Gauss Law and Local Gauge Symmetries in QFT," Springer Books, in: Andrea Cintio & Alessandro Michelangeli (ed.), Trails in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, pages 233-245, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-44988-8_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-44988-8_13
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