Non-perturbative aspects of galileon duality

Millington, Peter, Niedermann, Florian and Padilla, Antonio (2018) Non-perturbative aspects of galileon duality. European Physical Journal C, 78 (7). p. 546. ISSN 1434-6044

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Abstract

We study quantum aspects of the galileon duality, especially in the case of a particular interacting galileon theory that is said to be dual to a free theory through the action of a simultaneous field and coordinate transformation. This would appear to map a theory with multiple vacua to one with a unique vacuum state. However, by regulating the duality transformation using external sources, we are able to preserve the full vacuum structure in the dual frame. By explicitly calculating the one-particle irreducible effective action on a maximally symmetric background, we identify a semi-classical contribution to the Wightman functions that has not been taken into account in previous analyses due to the singular point in the duality map. This may affect its spectral properties at high energy scales. These observations cast doubt on the main evidence in support of a non-local UV structure for galileons.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/945284
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Physics and Astronomy
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6029-0
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 06 Jul 2018 12:11
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 19:45
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/52804

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