6 papers
Spontaneous symmetry breaking in a non-Abelian topological gauge theory
Octavio C. Junqueira, Rodrigo F. Sobreiro, Nelson R. F. Braga
We study the spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism in a non-Abelian topological gauge field theory, built from the twisted super-Yang-Mills theory in the presen…
Generating Jackiw-Teitelboim Euclidean gravity from static three-dimensional Maxwell-Chern-Simons electromagnetism
Thales F. Bittencourt, Rodrigo F. Sobreiro
We consider pure three-dimensional Maxwell-Chern-Simons electrodynamics in the static limit. We show that this theory can be mapped onto a two-dimensional gravitational model in th…
Topological symmetry-restored phase of gravity
Guilherme Sadovski, Rodrigo F. Sobreiro
In this work, we propose a topological quantum field theory phase for four-dimensional gravity. We show it is able to generate, not only General Relativity, but the whole family of…
A relativistic non-perturbative local model of fractons and its non-local perturbative hidden sector
Rodrigo F. Sobreiro
We construct, from first principles, a covariant local model for scalar fractonic matter coupled to a symmetric tensor gauge field. The free gauge field action is just the one of t…
Unifying fractons, gravitons and photons from a gauge theoretical approach
Rodrigo F. Sobreiro
We revisit the first principles gauge theoretical construction of relativistic gapless fracton theory developed by A.~Blasi and N.~Maggiore. The difference is that, instead of cons…
Relating electrodynamics and gravity in two Euclidean dimensions
Thales F. Bittencourt, Rodrigo F. Sobreiro
Two-dimensional electrodynamics coupled to Dirac fermions is mapped onto two-dimensional gravity in the first-order formalism, also including fermions. However, the resulting fermi…