Stueckelberg field and Cosmology

Abstract

Stueckelberg introduced an axion like scalar field to provide mass to the gauge electromagnetic field without breaking gauge invariance. This can be considered as a precursor to the spontaneously broken abelian Higgs model. We will consider its role in cosmology to provide a novel candidate to the dark matter question. In addition its implications to deeper issues will be pointed out.

Comments: To appear in the Proceedings of the 17th Marcel Grossmann Meeting at Pescara. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2412.10806