Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1995-02-28
Nucl.Phys. B451 (1995) 725-748
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
30 pages, Plain TeX, no figures.
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(95)00265-T
We construct the most general local effective actions for Goldstone boson fields associated with spontaneous symmetry breakdown from a group $G$ to a subgroup $H$. In a preceding paper, it was shown that any $G$-invariant term in the action, which results from a non-invariant Lagrangian density, corresponds to a non-trivial generator of the de Rham cohomology classes of $G/H$. Here, we present an explicit construction of all the generators of this cohomology for any coset space $G/H$ and compact, connected group $G$. Generators contributing to actions in 4-dimensional space-time arise either as products of generators of lower degree such as the Goldstone-Wilczek current, or are of the Wess-Zumino-Witten type. The latter arise if and only if $G$ has a non-zero $G$-invariant symmetric $d$-symbol, which vanishes when restricted to the subgroup $H$, i.e. when $G$ has anomalous representations in which $H$ is embedded in an anomaly free way. Coupling of additional gauge fields leads to actions whose gauge variation coincides with the chiral anomaly, which is carried here by Goldstone boson fields at tree level. Generators contributing to actions in 3-dimensional space-time arise as Chern-Simons terms evaluated on connections that are composites of the Goldstone field.
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