Improved Noether’s theorem for spacetime symmetries
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چکیده
We exploit an ambiguity somewhat hidden in Noether's theorem to derive systematically, for relativistic field theories, the stress-energy tensor's improvement terms that are associated with additional spacetime symmetries beyond translations. work out explicitly cases of Lorentz invariance, scale and full conformal invariance. The main idea is use, directly translation Noether theorem, fact these can be thought as suitably modulated Compared more standard derivations terms, ours (1) unifies all different a single framework, (2) involves no guesswork, (3) yields desired algebraic properties (symmetry and/or tracelessness) tensor off-shell, (4) those symmetries, yielding at same time both improved currents.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical review
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0556-2813', '1538-4497', '1089-490X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.106.125005