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Unconstrained Higher Spins of Mixed Symmetry. II. Fermi Fields

This paper is a sequel of arXiv:0810.4350 [hep-th], and is also devoted to the local "metric-like" unconstrained Lagrangians and field equations for higher-spin fields of mixed symmetry in flat space. Here we complete the previous constrained on-shell formulation of Labastida for Fermi fie...

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Autores principales: Campoleoni, Andrea, Francia, Dario, Mourad, Jihad, Sagnotti, Augusto
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Nucl. Phys. B 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2009.08.025
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1174720
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Sumario:This paper is a sequel of arXiv:0810.4350 [hep-th], and is also devoted to the local "metric-like" unconstrained Lagrangians and field equations for higher-spin fields of mixed symmetry in flat space. Here we complete the previous constrained on-shell formulation of Labastida for Fermi fields, deriving the corresponding constrained Lagrangians both via the Bianchi identities and via the requirement of self-adjointness. We also describe two types of unconstrained Lagrangian formulations: a "minimal" one, containing higher derivatives of the compensator fields, and another non-minimal one, containing only one-derivative terms. We identify classes of these systems that are invariant under Weyl-like symmetry transformations.