Gauss' law and string-localized quantum field theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2020)001zbMath1434.83150arXiv1906.09596MaRDI QIDQ2185233

Jens Mund, Bert Schroer, Karl-Henning Rehren

Publication date: 4 June 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09596

zbMATH Keywords

gauge symmetryspace-time symmetriesglobal symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05)

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