Gauge invariant Lagrangian construction for massive higher spin fermionic fields

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DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2006.08.060zbMATH Open1248.81249arXivhep-th/0603212OpenAlexW2007455213MaRDI QIDQ712849FDOQ712849


Authors: V. A. Krykhtin, L. L. Ryskina, Hiroyuki Takata, I. L. Buchbinder Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 18 October 2012

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We formulate a general gauge invariant Lagrangian construction describing the dynamics of massive higher spin fermionic fields in arbitrary dimensions. Treating the conditions determining the irreducible representations of Poincare group with given spin as the operator constraints in auxiliary Fock space, we built the BRST charge for the model under consideration and find the gauge invariant equations of motion in terms of vectors and operators in the Fock space. It is shown that like in massless case hep-th/0410215, the massive fermionic higher spin field models are the reducible gauge theories and the order of reducibility grows with the value of spin. In compare with all previous approaches, no off-shell constraints on the fields and the gauge parameters are imposed from the very beginning, all correct constraints emerge automatically as the consequences of the equations of motion. As an example, we derive a gauge invariant Lagrangian for massive spin 3/2 field.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0603212




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