Asymptotic symmetries of Yang-Mills theory

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作者
Strominger, Andrew [1 ]
机构
[1] Harvard Univ, Radcliffe Inst Adv Study, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
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Scattering Amplitudes; Gauge Symmetry; Classical Theories of Gravity; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; GENERAL RELATIVITY;
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10.1007/JHEP07(2014)151
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
Asymptotic symmetries at future null infinity (I+) of Minkowski space for electrodynamics with massless charged fields, as well as nonabelian gauge theories with gauge group G, are considered at the semiclassical level. The possibility of charge/color flux through I+ suggests the symmetry group is infinite-dimensional. It is conjectured that the symmetries include a G Kac-Moody symmetry whose generators are "large" gauge transformations which approach locally holomorphic functions on the conformal two-sphere at I+ and are invariant under null translations. The Kac-Moody currents are constructed from the gauge field at the future boundary of I+. The current Ward identities include Weinberg's soft photon theorem and its colored exetension.
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