Conserved laws and dynamical structure of axions coupled to photons
arXiv:2001.07101 · doi:10.1142/S0217751X21502596
Abstract
In this work, we carry out a study of the conserved quantities and dynamical structure of the four-dimensional modified axion electrodynamics theory described by the axion-photon coupling. In the first part of the analysis, we employ the covariant phase space method to construct the conserved currents and to derive the Noether charges associated with the gauge symmetry of the theory. We further derive the improved energy-momentum tensor using the Belinfante-Rosenfeld procedure, which leads us to the expressions for the energy, momentum, and energy flux densities. Thereafter, with the help of Faddeev-Jackiw's Hamiltonian reduction formalism, we obtain the relevant fundamental brackets structure for the dynamic variables and the functional measure for determining the quantum transition amplitude. We also confirm that modified axion electrodynamics has three physical degrees of freedom per space point. Moreover, using this symplectic framework, we yield the gauge transformations and the structure of the constraints directly from the zero-modes of the corresponding presymplectic matrix.
typos corrected, published in International Journal of Modern Physics A
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