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We construct effective field theories for gapped quantum Hall systems coupled to background geometries with local Galilean invariance i.e. Bargmann spacetimes. Along with an electromagnetic field, these backgrounds include the effects of curved Galilean spacetimes, including torsion and a gravitational field, allowing us to study charge, energy, stress and mass currents within a unified framework. A shift symmetry specific to single constituent theories constraints the effective action to couple to an effective background gauge field and spin connection that is solved for by a self-consistent equation, providing a manifestly covariant extension of Hoyos and Son’s improvement terms to arbitrary order in m.
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Geracie, M., Prabhu, K. & Roberts, M.M. Covariant effective action for a Galilean invariant quantum Hall system. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 92 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2016)092
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