On massive spin-^3/_2 in the Fradkin-Vasiliev formalism

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC1C1EzbMATH Open1482.83107arXiv2105.01325OpenAlexW3157879652MaRDI QIDQ5164071FDOQ5164071

Authors: M. V. Khabarov, Yu. M. Zinoviev 

Publication date: 9 November 2021

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: One of the possible approaches to the construction of massive higher spin interactions is to use their gauge invariant description based on the introduction of the appropriate set of Stueckelberg fields. Recently, the general properties of such approach were investigated in [1]. The main findings of this work can be formulated in two statements. At first, there always exist enough field redefinitions to bring the vertex into abelian form where there are some corrections to the gauge transformations but the gauge algebra is undeformed. At second, with the further (as a rule higher derivative) field redefinitions one can bring the vertex into trivially gauge invariant form expressed in terms of the gauge invariant objects of the free theory. Our aim in this work is to show (using a simple example) how these general properties are realised in the so-called Fradkin-Vasiliev formalism and to see the effects (if any) that the presence of massless field, and hence of some unbroken gauge symmetries, can produce. As such example we take the gravitational interaction for massive spin-3/2 field so we complete the investigation started in [2] relaxing all restrictions on the number of derivatives and allowed field redefinitions. We show that in spite of the presence of massless spin-2 field, the first statement is still valid, while there exist two abelian vertices which are not equivalent on-shell to the trivially gauge invariant ones. Moreover, it is one of this abelian vertices that reproduce the minimal interaction for massive spin-3/2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01325

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zbMATH Keywords

gravitational interactionsmassive higher spinscubic verticesFradkin-Vasiliev formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vertex subsets with special properties (dominating sets, independent sets, cliques, etc.) (05C69) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Higher spin theories (81T11)

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