Canonical charges and central extension of the null-reduced theory

Determine whether the higher Galilean conformal modes of the null-reduced Galilean Kalb–Ramond action are recovered as canonical Noether charges with a central term, while fixing the physical degree-of-freedom count through the Hamiltonian analysis of its reducible gauge symmetry and Dirac brackets.

Background

The null-reduction construction produces the local Galilean Kalb–Ramond action with fields χ\chi, ψi\psi_i, EiE_i, and BijB_{ij}, but the action is invariant only under the global Galilean generators and not under the higher modes of the infinite-dimensional Galilean conformal algebra. The paper identifies a Hamiltonian analysis as the next step for understanding whether those non-invariant higher modes nevertheless act as phase-space charges, potentially with a central extension.

Because the Kalb–Ramond gauge symmetry is reducible, the proposed analysis must also account for the associated gauge-for-gauge structure when determining the physical degrees of freedom and constructing the Dirac brackets and Noether-charge algebra.

References

Understand whether the higher modes are recovered as canonical charges with a central term .

Galilean Kalb-Ramond Field  (2609.01097 - Mehra, 1 Sep 2026) in Paragraph “Canonical analysis and the central extension,” Section “Summary and Future Directions”

We want to understand if this feature is true for p\ge 2, and how its severity scales with p ?

Galilean Kalb-Ramond Field  (2609.01097 - Mehra, 1 Sep 2026) in Paragraph “The general \(p\)-form and the pattern of the obstruction,” Section “Summary and Future Directions”