Published June 26, 2008
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Journal article
Transverse invariant higher-spin fields
Creators
- 1. I.E. Tamm Department of Theoretical Physics, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky prospect 53, 119991 Moscow (Russian Federation)
Description
It is shown that a symmetric massless bosonic higher-spin field can be described by a traceless tensor field with reduced (transverse) gauge invariance. The Hamiltonian analysis of the transverse gauge invariant higher-spin models is used to control a number of degrees of freedom
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2008.05.043Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2008.05.043;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-th/0701278v2;
- PII
- S0370-2693(08)00622-9;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. Section B
- Journal Volume
- 664
- Journal Issue
- 4-5
- Journal Page Range
- p. 301-306
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBAJ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 40046965
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DEGREES OF FREEDOM; GAUGE INVARIANCE; HAMILTONIANS; SPIN; TENSOR FIELDS
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM OPERATORS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2008 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.