Interacting Lagrangian for massive spin-two field
Creators
- 1. The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 (USA)
Description
As is well known, Kaluza-Klein compactification of five-dimensional gravity gives a four-dimensional theory of a tower of massive spin-2 fields interacting with background gravitational, electromagnetic, and scalar fields. Working to lowest order in the massive fields, one can obtain a Lagrangian for a single massive spin-2 field interacting with gravitational and other background fields which is consistent up to terms of higher order in the massive spin-2 field. This consistency depends on massive spin-2 gauge invariances which are valid up to terms of higher order in the massive field. We explicitly exhibit the four-dimensional Lagrangian and its gauge transformations. This analysis parallels a similar analysis in string theory carried out elsewhere
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review, D
- Journal Volume
- 40
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 1095-1100
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 21003840
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; KALUZA-KLEIN THEORY; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; MASS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; METRICS; SCALAR FIELDS; SPACE-TIME; SPIN; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; SYMMETRY; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES