Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1999-11-30
Mod.Phys.Lett. A15 (2000) 121-132
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
One reference added and a typos corrected. 15 pages, To appear in Mod. Phys. Lett. A
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217732300000128
We analyse the equivalence between topologically massive gauge theory (TMGT) and different formulations of non-topologically massive gauge theories (NTMGTs) in the canonical approach. The different NTMGTs studied are St\"uckelberg formulation of (A) a first order formulation involving one and two form fields, (B) Proca theory, and (C) massive Kalb-Ramond theory. We first quantise these reducible gauge systems by using the phase space extension procedure and using it, identify the phase space variables of NTMGTs which are equivalent to the canonical variables of TMGT and show that under this the Hamiltonian also get mapped. Interestingly it is found that the different NTMGTs are equivalent to different formulations of TMGTs which differ only by a total divergence term. We also provide covariant mappings between the fields in TMGT to NTMGTs at the level of correlation function.
Harikumar E.
Sivakumar M.
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