Fracton Gauge Theories in Curved Spacetimes
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| author | Afxonidis, Evangelos Caddeo, Alessio Hoyos, Carlos Musso, Daniele |
| author_facet | Afxonidis, Evangelos Caddeo, Alessio Hoyos, Carlos Musso, Daniele |
| contents | Fractonic matter with dipole symmetry can be coupled to a two-index symmetric tensor gauge field. In this work, we show that this symmetric tensor field, along with other related generalized Maxwell theories, can be consistently coupled to curved backgrounds in a covariant and gauge-invariant way by reformulating dipole symmetry using conventional vector gauge fields. We identify a family of curved geometries where global dipole symmetry is preserved and derive energy-momentum conservation laws as Ward identities associated with background diffeomorphisms. Our results pave the way for future extensions, including generalizations to higher-order multipole theories. |
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| spellingShingle | Fracton Gauge Theories in Curved Spacetimes Afxonidis, Evangelos Caddeo, Alessio Hoyos, Carlos Musso, Daniele High Energy Physics - Theory Strongly Correlated Electrons Fractonic matter with dipole symmetry can be coupled to a two-index symmetric tensor gauge field. In this work, we show that this symmetric tensor field, along with other related generalized Maxwell theories, can be consistently coupled to curved backgrounds in a covariant and gauge-invariant way by reformulating dipole symmetry using conventional vector gauge fields. We identify a family of curved geometries where global dipole symmetry is preserved and derive energy-momentum conservation laws as Ward identities associated with background diffeomorphisms. Our results pave the way for future extensions, including generalizations to higher-order multipole theories. |
| title | Fracton Gauge Theories in Curved Spacetimes |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08621 |