Discrete gauge symmetry anomalies

It has been recently argued that quantum gravity effects strongly violate all non-gauge symmetries. This would suggest that all low energy discrete symmetries should be gauge symmetries, either continuous or discrete. Acceptable continuous gauge symmetries are constrained by the condition they should be anomaly free. We show here that any discrete gauge symmetry should also obey certain “discrete anomaly cancellation” conditions. These conditions strongly constrains the massles fermion content of the theory and follow from the “parent” cancellation of the usual continuous gauge anomalies. They have interesting applications in model building. As an example we consider the constraints on the Z_N “generalized matter parities” of the supersymmetric standard model. We show that only a few (including the standard R-parity) are “discrete anomaly free” unless the fermion content of the minimal supersymmetric standard model is enlarged.     

Stabilizing the axion by discrete gauge symmetries

The axion solution to the strong CP problem makes use of a global Peccei–Quinn U(1) symmetry which is susceptible to violations from quantum gravitational effects. We show how discrete gauge symmetries can protect the axion from such violations. PQ symmetry emerges as an approximate global symmetry from discrete gauge symmetries. Simple models based on Z_N symmetries with N=11,12, etc., are presented realizing the DFSZ axion and the KSVZ axion. The discrete gauge anomalies are canceled by a discrete version of the Green–Schwarz mechanism. In the supersymmetric extension our models provide a natural link between the SUSY breaking scale, the axion scale, and the SUSY-preserving μ term.     

Evidence for nonperturbative string symmetries

String theory appears to admit a group of discrete field transformations — calledS dualities — as exact nonperturbative quantum symmetries. Mathematically, they are rather analogous to the better-knownT duality symmetries, which hold perturbatively. In this Letter the evidence forS duality is reviewed and some speculations are presented.     

A lattice Maxwell system with discrete space–time symmetry and local energy–momentum conservation

A lattice Maxwell system is developed with gauge-symmetry, symplectic structure and discrete space–time symmetry. Noether's theorem for Lie group symmetries is generalized to discrete group symmetries for the lattice Maxwell system. As a result, the lattice Maxwell system is shown to admit a discrete local energy–momentum conservation law corresponding to the discrete space–time symmetry. A lattice model that respects all local conservation laws and geometric structures is as good as and probably more preferable than standard models on continuous space–time. It can also be viewed as an effective algorithm for the governing differential equations on continuous space–time.     

Supersymmetric model with an extra U(1) gauge symmetry forbidding proton decay

In the standard model the proton is protected from decay naturally by gauge symmetries, whereas in the ordinary minimal supersymmetric standard model an ad hoc discrete symmetry is imposed for the proton stability. We present a new supersymmetric model in which the proton decay is forbidden by an extra U(1) gauge symmetry. Particle contents are necessarily increased to be free from anomalies, incorporating right-handed neutrinos. Both Dirac and Majorana masses are generated for neutrinos, yielding nonvanishing but small masses. The superpotential consists only of trilinear couplings and the mass parameter &mgr; of the minimal model is induced by spontaneous breaking of the U(1) symmetry.     

Discrete space-time symmetries

Symmetries have always fascinated human beings; they are found in nature, art, and architecture. Physicists, like other scientists have often used symmetries as a basis of their understanding of nature. When the dynamics is unknown, symmetries serve to delineate and define it. When the dynamics is known, symmetries are used to study structure.In these two lectures, there are reviewed the theory and present understanding and status of two discrete space-time symmetries, namely parity (P) and time reversal (T).Lectures held at the Indian-Summer School on Electromagnetic and Weak Interactions of Particles and Nuclei, Sázava, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 September 1992     

Discrete symmetries and the complex structure of Calabi-Yau manifolds

We show how the discrete symmetries, which may be present after Calabi-Yau compactification for specific choices of the complex structure, extend to the h_2,1 moduli — the scalar fields whose vacuum expectation values determine the complex structure. This allows us to determine much about the coupling of the moduli and hence the energetically favoured complex structure. The discrete symmetry transformation properties of the moduli are worked out in detail for a three-generation Calabi-Yau model and it is shown how minimization of the effective potential involving these fields selects the complex structure which leaves unbroken a set of discrete symmetries. The phenomenological implications of these symmetries are briefly discussed.     

Symmetries and variational calculation of discrete Hamiltonian systems

We present a numerical simulation method of Noether and Lie symmetries for discrete Hamiltonian systems. The Noether and Lie symmetries for the systems are proposed by investigating the invariance properties of discrete Lagrangian in phase space. The numerical calculations of a two-degree-of-freedom nonlinear harmonic oscillator show that the difference discrete variational method preserves the exactness and the invariant quantity.     

Topology,unitary representations and charged particles

The quantum mechanics of the charged particles with rigid and local symmetries propagating on the manifoldM is studied. It is shown that the classical rigid symmetries of this model may be anomalous. These anomalies are of local and global type, and they related to topological obstructions to lifting a group action of a groupG onM to a principalU(1) bundleP overM. The charged particles with local symmetries may have additional anomalies and the representation theory of the groupC is used to study these anomalies. Finally, the quantum mechanics of the supersymmetric charged particles with symmetries is examined.     

Local grand unification in the heterotic landscape

We consider the possibility that the unification of the electroweak interactions and the strong force arises from string theory, at energies significantly lower than the string scale. As a tool, an effective grand unified field theory in six dimensions is derived from an anisotropic orbifold compactification of the heterotic string. It is explicitly shown that all anomalies cancel in the model, though anomalous Abelian gauge symmetries are present locally at the boundary singularities. In the supersymmetric vacuum additional interactions arise from higher‐dimensional operators. We develop methods that relate the couplings of the effective theory to the location of the vacuum, and find that unbroken discrete symmetries play an important role for the phenomenology of orbifold models. An efficient algorithm for the calculation of the superpotential to arbitrary order is developed, based on symmetry arguments. We furthermore present a correspondence between bulk fields of the orbifold model in six dimensions, and the moduli fields that arise from compactifying four internal dimensions on a manifold with non‐trivial gauge background.     

How to Find Discrete Contact Symmetries

Abstract

This paper describes a new algorithm for determining all discrete contact symmetries of any differential equation whose Lie contact symmetries are known. The method is constructive and is easy to use. It is based upon the observation that the adjoint action of any contact symmetry is an automorphism of the Lie algebra of generators of Lie contact symmetries. Consequently, all contact symmetries satisfy various compatibility conditions. These conditions enable the discrete symmetries to be found systematically, with little effort.     

Quantum Noether method

We present a general method for constructing perturbative quantum field theories with global symmetries. We start from a free non-interacting quantum field theory with given global symmetries and we determine all perturbative quantum deformations assuming the construction is not obstructed by anomalies. The method is established within the causal Bogoliubov-Shirkov-Epstein-Glaser approach to perturbative quantum field theory (which leads directly to a finite perturbative series and does not rely on an intermediate regularization). Our construction can be regarded as a direct implementation of Noether's method at the quantum level. We illustrate the method by constructing the pure Yang-Mills theory (where the relevant global symmetry is BRST symmetry), and the N = 1 supersymmetric model of Wess and Zumino. The whole construction is done before the so-called adiabatic limit is taken. Thus, all considerations regarding symmetry, unitarity and anomalies are well defined even for massless theories.     

Quasi-continuous symmetries of non-lie type

We introduce a smooth mapping of some discrete space-time symmetries into quasi-continuous ones. Such transformations are related with q-deformations of the dilations of the Euclidean space and with the noncommutative space. We work out two examples of Hamiltonian invariance under such symmetries. The Schrödinger equation for a free particle is investigated in such a noncommutative plane and a connection with anyonic statistics is found.     

Q-Deformed KP Hierarchy: Its Additional Symmetries and Infinitesimal Bäcklund Transformations

We study the additional symmetries associated with the q-deformed Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (q-KP) hierarchy. After identifying the resolvent operator as the generator of the additional symmetries, the q-KP hierarchy can be consistently reduced to the so-called q-deformed constrained KP (q-cKP) hierarchy. We then show that the additional symmetries acting on the wave function can be viewed as infinitesimal Bäcklund transformations by acting the vertex operator on the tau-function of the q-KP hierarchy. This establishes the Adler–Shiota–van Moerbeke formula for the q-KP hierarchy.     

Discrete symmetry and GUT breaking

We study the supersymmetric GUT models in which the supersymmetry and GUT gauge symmetry can be broken by a discrete symmetry. First, with the ansatz that there exist discrete symmetries in the branes' neighborhoods, we discuss the general reflection symmetries and GUT breaking on and . In those models, the extra dimensions can be large and the KK states can be set arbitrarily heavy. Second, considering that the extra space manifold is the annulus or the disc , we can define any symmetry and break any 6-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric SU(M) models down to the 4-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric models for the zero modes. In particular, there might exist the interesting scenario on where just a few KK states are light, while the others are relatively heavy. Third, we discuss the complete global discrete symmetries on and study the GUT breaking. Received: 12 February 2002 / Published online: 14 June 2002     

Revisiting novel symmetries in coupled ${ \mathcal N }=2$ supersymmetric quantum systems: examples and supervariable approach

We revisit the novel symmetries in ${ \mathcal N }=2$ supersymmetric quantum mechanical models by considering specific examples of coupled systems. Further, we extend our analysis to a general case and list out all the novel symmetries. In each case, we show the existence of two sets of discrete symmetries that correspond to the Hodge duality operator of differential geometry. Thus, we are able to provide a proof of the conjecture which points out the existence of more than one set of discrete symmetry transformations corresponding to the Hodge duality operator. Moreover, we derive on-shell nilpotent symmetries for a generalized superpotential within the framework of supervariable approach.     

(2+1)维离散型Toda方程的对称性

将文献[1—4]提出的形式级数对称理论推广应用到(2+1)维的离散型Toda方程,得到了二族无穷多广义截断对称。每一族对称构成一个广义W_∞代数,通常的W_∞代数仅是这个代数的子代数。 关键词：     

Quantum Lattice Models at Intermediate Temperature

We analyze the free energy and construct the Gibbs-KMS states for a class of quantum lattice systems, at low temperature and when the interactions are almost diagonal, in a suitable basis. The models we study may have continuous symmetries, our results, however, apply to intermediate temperatures where discrete symmetries are broken but continuous symmetries are not. Our results are based on quantum Pirogov–Sinai theory and a combination of high and low temperature expansions. Received: 6 December 2000 / Accepted: 18 July 2001     

Lie—Bäcklund Symmetries of Two-Dimensional SU(2) Yang—Mills System and Nonhomogeneous Lax Pair

We obtain the Lie—Bäcklund-type symmetries of the two-dimensional SU(2)Yang—Mills equation with the help of a generalized formal series method. Both(x, t)-dependent and independent symmetries are obtained and it is shown thatthey form a closed algebra. Finally a nonhomogeneous Lax equation is derivedusing these symmetries.     

Light-cone distribution amplitudes of the ground state bottom baryons in HQET

We prove the existence of hidden symmetries in the general relativity theory defined by exact solutions with generic off-diagonal metrics, nonholonomic (non-integrable) constraints, and deformations of the frame and linear connection structure. A special role in characterization of such spacetimes is played by the corresponding nonholonomic generalizations of Stackel–Killing and Killing–Yano tensors. There are constructed new classes of black hole solutions and we study hidden symmetries for ellipsoidal and/or solitonic deformations of “prime” Kerr–Sen black holes into “target” off-diagonal metrics. In general, the classical conserved quantities (integrable and not-integrable) do not transfer to the quantized systems and produce quantum gravitational anomalies. We prove that such anomalies can be eliminated via corresponding nonholonomic deformations of fundamental geometric objects (connections and corresponding Riemannian and Ricci tensors) and by frame transforms.