Symmetric scalars

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/05/031zbMATH Open1491.83021arXiv1909.04622OpenAlexW2972721908MaRDI QIDQ5069139

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Publication date: 8 April 2022

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Abstract: We provide a complete classification of Poincar'e-invariant scalar field theories with an enlarged set of classical symmetries to leading order in derivatives, namely for the so-called $P(X,phi)$ theories, in two or more spacetime dimensions. We find only three possibilities: Dirac-Born-Infeld, Cuscuton and Scaling theories. The latter two classes of actions involve an arbitrary function of the scalar field. As an application, we use the scaling symmetry to derive an infinite set of constraints on the Wilsonian coefficients of the low-energy Effective Field Theory. Furthermore, we study the extension of these results to cosmological (FLRW) and (Anti-)de Sitter spacetimes. We find in particular that the Cuscuton action has a generic set of symmetries around any background spacetime that possesses Killing vector fields, while the DBI actions have well-known analogues that we summarize explicitly.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04622

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