Chromogravity - An Effective Diff(4,R) Gauge for the IR region of QCD

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel gauge theory based on a pseudo-diffeomorphism group to model the IR regime of QCD, deriving confining potentials and Regge trajectories, and connecting to nuclear physics phenomena.

Contribution

It proposes a new effective pseudo-gravity gauge theory for QCD's IR region, deriving equations of motion and physical predictions that align with observed hadron and nuclear properties.

Findings

Derives a linearly rising confining potential from the pseudo-gravity model.

Predicts linear Regge trajectories consistent with experimental data.

Connects the pseudo-gravity quanta to nuclear ground state excitations.

Abstract

Previous work on the IR regime approximation of QCD in which the dominant contribution comes from a dressed two-gluon effective metric-like field $G_{\mu\nu} = g_{ab} A^{a}_{\mu} A^{b}_{\nu}$ ($g_{ab}$ a color SU(3) metric) is reviewed. The QCD gauge is approximated by effective "chromodiffeomorphisms", i.e. by a gauge theory based on a pseudo-diffeomorphisms group. The second-quantized $G_{\mu\nu}$ field, together with the Lorentz generators close on the $\bar{SL}(4,R)$ algebra. This algebra represents a spectrum generating algebra for the set of hadron states of a given flavor - hadronic "manifields" transforming w.r.t. $\bar{SL}(4,R)$ (infinite-dimensional) unitary irreducible representations. The equations of motion for the effective pseudo-gravity are derived from a quadratic action describing Riemannian pseudo-gravity in the presence of shear ($\bar{SL}(4,R)$ covariant) hadronic matter currents. These equations yield $p^{-4}$ propagators, i.e. a linearly rising confining potential $H(r) \sim r$, as well as linear $J \sim m^{2}$ Regge trajectories. The $\bar{SL}(4,R)$ symmetry based dynamical theory for the QCD IR region is successfully applied to hadron resonances. The pseudo-gravity potential reaches over to Nuclear Physics, where its $J^{P} = 2^{+}, 0^{+}$ quanta provide for the ground state excitations of the Arima-Iachello Interacting Boson Model.