Geometric Lagrangians for massive higher-spin fields

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DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2007.12.002zbMATH Open1219.81187arXiv0710.5378OpenAlexW2013818498MaRDI QIDQ952298FDOQ952298


Authors: Dario Francia Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 12 November 2008

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

Abstract: Lagrangians for massive, unconstrained, higher-spin bosons and fermions are proposed. The idea is to modify the geometric, gauge invariant Lagrangians describing the corresponding massless theories by the addition of suitable quadratic polynomials. These polynomials provide generalisations of the Fierz-Pauli mass term containing all possible traces of the basic field. No auxiliary fields are needed.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5378




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