Abstract
Abstract
We investigate the asymptotic symmetry group of a SU(2)-Yang-Mills theory coupled to a Higgs field in the Hamiltonian formulation. This extends previous work on the asymptotic structure of pure electromagnetism by Henneaux and Troessaert, and on electromagnetism coupled to scalar fields and pure Yang-Mills fields by Tanzi and Giulini. We find that there are no obstructions to global electric and magnetic charges, though that is rather subtle in the magnetic case. Again it is the Hamiltionian implementation of boost symmetries that need a careful and technically subtle discussion of fall-off and parity conditions of all fields involved.
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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