Worldline approach to vector and antisymmetric tensor fields

Details Worldline approach to vector and antisymmetric tensor fields Worldline approach to vector and antisymmetric tensor fields

2005-03-21

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0503155v2

JHEP 0504 (2005) 010

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

30 pages, 5 figures, references added

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2005/04/010

The N=2 spinning particle action describes the propagation of antisymmetric tensor fields, including vector fields as a special case. In this paper we study the path integral quantization on a one-dimensional torus of the N=2 spinning particle coupled to spacetime gravity. The action has a local N=2 worldline supersymmetry with a gauged U(1) symmetry that includes a Chern-Simons coupling. Its quantization on the torus produces the one-loop effective action for a single antisymmetric tensor. We use this worldline representation to calculate the first few Seeley-DeWitt coefficients for antisymmetric tensor fields of arbitrary rank in arbitrary dimensions. As side results we obtain the correct trace anomaly of a spin 1 particle in four dimensions as well as exact duality relations between differential form gauge fields. This approach yields a drastic simplification over standard heat-kernel methods. It contains on top of the usual proper time a new modular parameter implementing the reduction to a single tensor field. Worldline methods are generically simpler and more efficient in perturbative computations then standard QFT Feynman rules. This is particularly evident when the coupling to gravity is considered.

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