Large gauge transformations and little group for soft photons

Hamada, Yuta; Seo, Min-Seok; Shiu, Gary

doi:10.1103/physrevd.96.105013

Large gauge transformations and little group for soft photons

Journal Article · Mon Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Physical Review D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.96.105013· OSTI ID:1541127

Hamada, Yuta ^[1]; Seo, Min-Seok ^[2]; Shiu, Gary ^[3]

Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Physics; High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba (Japan). High Energy Accelerator Research Organization Theory Center. Inst. of particle and nuclear studies; DOE/OSTI
Inst. for Basic Science, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of). Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe; Chungnam National Univ., Daejeon (Korea, Republic of). Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Physics

Recently, large gauge transformation (LGT), the residual gauge symmetry after gauge fixing that survives at null infinity, has drawn much attention concerning soft theorems and the memory effect. We point out that LGT charges in quantum electrodynamics are in fact one of noncompact generators of the two dimensional Euclidean group. Moreover, by comparing two equivalent descriptions of gauge transformation, we suggest that LGT is simply another way of describing the gauged little group for massless soft photons.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-95ER40896

OSTI ID:: 1541127

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1409463

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 96; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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