Large gauge transformations and little group for soft photons

Yuta Hamada, Min-Seok Seo, and Gary Shiu
Phys. Rev. D 96, 105013 – Published 20 November 2017

Abstract

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.

  • Received 16 May 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.105013

© 2017 American Physical Society

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Particles & Fields

Authors & Affiliations

Yuta Hamada1,2,*, Min-Seok Seo3,4,†, and Gary Shiu1,‡

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
  • 2High Energy Accelerator Research Organization Theory Center, Institute of particle and nuclear studies, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
  • 3Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34051, Korea
  • 4Department of Physics, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea

  • *yhamada@wisc.edu
  • minseokseo57@gmail.com
  • shiu@physics.wisc.edu

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Vol. 96, Iss. 10 — 15 November 2017

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