Unconstrained higher spins of mixed symmetry I. Bose fields
Journal article, 2009

This is the first of two papers devoted to the local "metric-like" unconstrained Lagrangians and field equations for higher-spin gauge fields of mixed symmetry in flat space. Here we complete the previous constrained formulation of Labastida for Bose fields. We thus recover his Lagrangians via the Bianchi identities. before extending them to their "minimal" unconstrained form with higher derivatives of the compensator fields and to yet another, non-minimal, form with only two-derivative terms. We also identify classes of these systems that are invariant under Weyl-like symmetries. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

feynman rules

approach

massless fields

cubic interaction terms

string fields

formulation

brst

invariant lagrangian construction

arbitrary spin

interacting gauge-fields

covariant local

bosonic free fields

Author

A. Campoleoni

École polytechnique

APC - AstroParticule et Cosmologie

National Institute for Nuclear Physics

Dario Francia

Chalmers, Fundamental Physics

J. Mourad

APC - AstroParticule et Cosmologie

A. Sagnotti

APC - AstroParticule et Cosmologie

National Institute for Nuclear Physics

École polytechnique

Nuclear Physics B

0550-3213 (ISSN)

Vol. 815 3 289-367

Subject Categories

Subatomic Physics

DOI

10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.12.019

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