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Topological mass generation and 2-forms

Journal

PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 102, Issue 6, Pages -

Publisher

AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.063521

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Funding

  1. COLCIENCIAS-DAAD Grant [110278258747]
  2. Universidad Antonio Narino [2019248, 2019101]
  3. European Research Council (ERC) under the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [801781]
  4. Swiss National Science Foundation [179740]
  5. Vicerrectoria de investigaciones - Universidad del Valle [71220]

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In this work we revisit the topological mass generation of 2-forms and establish a connection to the unique derivative coupling arising in the quartic Lagrangian of the systematic construction of massive 2-form interactions, relating in this way BF theories to Galileon-like theories of 2-forms. In terms of a massless 1-form A and a massless 2-form B, the topological term manifests itself as the interaction B <^> F, where F = dA is the field strength of the 1-form. Such an interaction leads to a mechanism of generation of mass, usually referred to as topological generation of mass in which the single degree of freedom propagated by the 2-form is absorbed by the 1-form, generating a massive mode for the 1-form. Using the systematical construction in terms of the Levi-Civita tensor, it was shown that, apart from the quadratic and quartic Lagrangians, Galileon-like derivative self-interactions for the massive 2-form do not exist. A unique quartic Lagrangian epsilon(mu nu)(rho sigma) epsilon(alpha beta gamma) (sigma)partial derivative B-mu(alpha rho)partial derivative B-nu(beta gamma) arises in this construction in a way that it corresponds to a total derivative on its own but ceases to be so once an overall general function is introduced. We show that it exactly corresponds to the same interaction of topological mass generation. Based on the decoupling limit analysis of the interactions, we make supporting arguments for the uniqueness of such a topological mass term and absence of the Galileon-like interactions. Finally, we discuss some preliminary applications in cosmology.

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