Particle spectrum of non-Abelian tensor gauge fields

DOI10.1142/S0217732310033001zbMATH Open1193.70042arXiv0909.3859MaRDI QIDQ3583202FDOQ3583202

Authors: George Savvidy 

Publication date: 26 August 2010

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a brief review of the non-Abelian tensor gauge field theory and analyze its free field equations for lower rank gauge fields when the interaction coupling constant tends to zero. The free field equations are written in terms of the first order derivatives of extended field strength tensors similar to the electrodynamics and non-Abelian gauge theories. We determine the particle content of the free field equations and count the propagating modes which they describe. In four-dimensional space-time the rank-2 gauge field describes propagating modes of helicity two and zero. We show that the rank-3 gauge field describes propagating modes of helicity-three and a doublet of helicity-one gauge bosons. Only four-dimensional space-time is physically acceptable, because in five- and higher-dimensional space-time the equation has solutions with negative norm states. We discuss the structure of the particle spectrum for higher rank gauge fields.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3859

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zbMATH Keywords

Yang-Mills theorynon-Abelian gauge field theorynon-Abelian tensor gauge fieldsrank-2 gauge fieldrank-3 gauge field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15)

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