Hamiltonian Form for Massless Higher Spin Fermions
May, 197919 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 21 (1980) 352
Report number:
- PRINT-79-0376 (BRANDEIS)
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Abstract: (APS)
The action of the free massless spin-52 tensor-spinor field ψμν is decomposed into its canonical form. It is shown to depend on a single gauge-invariant helicity ±52 spinor, the transverse-traceless and γ-transverse part of the spatial components ψij, which obeys the ordinary Dirac equation. The remaining nine components are explicitly removed using invariance of the action under three local gauge functions, to each of which is associated a Lagrange multiplier, constraint variable, and gauge component. The analysis of the higher-half-integer-spin cases is then shown to follow in a uniform way, in terms of suitably defined field variables.- FIELD THEORY: TENSOR
- FIELD THEORY: SPINOR
- SPINOR: FIELD THEORY
- SPIN: 5/2
- 5/2: SPIN
- HELICITY
- INVARIANCE: GAUGE
- Dirac equation
- FIELD THEORY: BIANCHI IDENTITY
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