Published January 2006
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Journal article
The continuous spin limit of higher spin field equations
Creators
- 1. Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Le Bois-Marie, 35 route de Chartres, 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette (France)
- 2. LPT, Bat. 210, Universite Paris XI, 91405 Orsay Cedex (France)
- 3. APC, Universite Paris VII, 2 place Jussieu, 75251 Paris Cedex 05 (France)
Description
We show that the Wigner equations describing the continuous spin representations can be obtained as a limit of massive higher-spin field equations. The limit involves a suitable scaling of the wave function, the mass going to zero and the spin to infinity with their product being fixed. The result allows to transform the Wigner equations to a gauge invariant Fronsdal-like form. We also give the generalisation of the Wigner equations to higher dimensions with fields belonging to arbitrary representations of the massless little group
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/1126-6708/2006/i=01/a=115/jhep012006115.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Journal Volume
- 2006
- Journal Issue
- 01
- Journal Page Range
- p. 115
- ISSN
- 1126-6708
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37051662
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- FIELD EQUATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; MASS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPIN; WAVE FUNCTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; PARTICLE PROPERTIES