Vector models with spontaneous Lorentz-symmetry breaking

• Main Author: Escobar, C. A.
• Publication Date: 2018
• Other Authors: Urrutia, L. F.
• Format: Article
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/12418

Even though models with spontaneous Lorentz-symmetry breaking also damage gauge invariance, an interesting possibility that emerges is to interpret the resultant massless Goldstone bosons as the gauge bosons of the related gauge theory. In this contribution we review the conditions under which gauge invariance is recovered from such models. To illustrate our general approach we consider the classical Abelian bumblebee and Nambu models. In the former case we prove its connection with electrodynamics by a procedure which takes proper care of the gauge-fixing conditions. In the case of the Abelian Nambu model its relation with electrodynamics is established in such a way that the generalization to the non-Abelian case is straightforward.