Published June 11, 2008
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Journal article
Geometric Lagrangians for massive higher-spin fields
Creators
- 1. Department of Fundamental Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96 Goeteborg (Sweden)
Description
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
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.12.002Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.12.002;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0710.5378v2;
- PII
- S0550-3213(07)00927-3;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. B
- Journal Volume
- 796
- Journal Issue
- 1-2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 77-122
- ISSN
- 0550-3213
- CODEN
- NUPBBO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39078674
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BOSONS; FERMIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; POLYNOMIALS; REST MASS; SPIN; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MASS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.