Massive higher spin from dimensional reduction of gauge fields

Journal Article · Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1987 · Ann. Phys. (N.Y.); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-4916(87)80005-2· OSTI ID:5711255

Aragone, C; Deser, S; Yang, Z

A unified treatment of symmetric and ''D-bein'' higher integer spin massive fields in arbitrary dimension is presented and illustrated with the generic cases of spins 3 and 4. The theories are uniformly generated from massless gauge systems in one higher dimension by Kaluza--Klein reduction. The origin and role of various auxiliary field formulations are thereby clarified in terms of the underlying gauge freedom. This treatment is compared with the construction of massive theories from gauge field actions in the same dimension. The general canonical formulation is also exhibited. copyright 1987 Academic Press, Inc.

• Research Organization: Physics Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254
• OSTI ID: 5711255
• Journal Information: Ann. Phys. (N.Y.); (United States), Vol. 179:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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