Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1840035 | Nuclear Physics B | 2015 | 18 Pages |
Abstract
We consider massive half-integer higher spin fields coupled to an external constant electromagnetic field in flat space of an arbitrary dimension and construct a gauge invariant Lagrangian in the linear approximation in the external field. A procedure for finding the gauge-invariant Lagrangians is based on the BRST construction where no off-shell constraints on the fields and on the gauge parameters are imposed from the very beginning. As an example of the general procedure, we derive a gauge invariant Lagrangian for a massive fermionic field with spin 3/2 which contains a set of auxiliary fields and gauge symmetries.
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Authors
I.L. Buchbinder, V.A. Krykhtin, M. Tsulaia,