Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum of the Tensor Gauge Field
Following the recent studies of the trickiness in spin and orbital angular momentum of the vector gauge fields, we perform here a parallel analysis for the tensor gauge field, which has certain relation to gravitation. Similarly to the vector case, we find a nice feature that after removing all gaug...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 2013-08, Vol.82 (8), p.083001-083001-4 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Following the recent studies of the trickiness in spin and orbital angular momentum of the vector gauge fields, we perform here a parallel analysis for the tensor gauge field, which has certain relation to gravitation. Similarly to the vector case, we find a nice feature that after removing all gauge degrees of freedom the angular momentum of the tensor gauge field vanishes for a stationary system. This angular momentum also shows a one-parameter invariance over the infinitely many ways of complete gauge fixing for the tensor field. The tensor gauge coupling, however, does exhibit a critical difference from the vector gauge coupling that it may induce intrinsic interaction terms into the spatial translation and rotation generators, leaving none of the ten Poincaré generators interaction-free. |
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ISSN: | 0031-9015 1347-4073 |
DOI: | 10.7566/JPSJ.82.083001 |