Milne boost from Galilean gauge theory

Rabin Banerjee; Pradip Mukherjee

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.01.033

Physics Letters B (Mar 2018)

Milne boost from Galilean gauge theory

Rabin Banerjee,
Pradip Mukherjee

Affiliations

Rabin Banerjee: S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block, Sector III, Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700 098, India
Pradip Mukherjee: Department of Physics, Barasat Government College, 10, KNC Road, Barasat, Kolkata 700124, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.01.033
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 778, no. C
pp. 303 – 308

Abstract

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Physical origin of Milne boost invariance of the Newton Cartan spacetime is traced to the effect of local Galilean boosts in its metric structure, using Galilean gauge theory. Specifically, we do not require any gauge field to understand Milne boost invariance.

Published in Physics Letters B

ISSN: 0370-2693 (Print); 1873-2445 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Science: Physics
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