Interactions of a massless tensor field with the mixed symmetry of the Riemann tensor. No-go results

DOI10.1140/EPJC/S2004-01888-YzbMATH Open1191.81193arXivhep-th/0306154OpenAlexW2096422636MaRDI QIDQ982880FDOQ982880

Authors: Constantin Bizdadea, C. C. Ciobîrcă, Eugen-Mihaita Cioroianu, Solange Odile Saliu, Silviu Constantin Săraru 

Publication date: 27 July 2010

Published in: The European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Non-trivial, consistent interactions of a free, massless tensor field t_{mu u |alpha �eta} with the mixed symmetry of the Riemann tensor are studied in the following cases: self-couplings, cross-interactions with a Pauli-Fierz field and cross-couplings with purely matter theories. The main results, obtained from BRST cohomological techniques under the assumptions on smoothness, locality, Lorentz covariance and Poincar'{e} invariance of the deformations, combined with the requirement that the interacting Lagrangian is at most second-order derivative, can be synthesized into: no consistent self-couplings exist, but a cosmological-like term; no cross-interactions with the Pauli-Fierz field can be added; no non-trivial consistent cross-couplings with the matter theories such that the matter fields gain gauge transformations are allowed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0306154

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Unified, higher-dimensional and super field theories (83E99)

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