Deser, S. and Waldron, A. (2001) Partial masslessness of higher spins in (A)dS. Nuclear Physics B, 607 (3). pp. 577-604. ISSN 0550-3213. doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00212-7. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20161216-094037789
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Abstract
Massive spin s ⩾ 3/2 fields can become partially massless in cosmological backgrounds. In the plane spanned by m² and Λ, there are lines where new gauge invariances permit intermediate sets of higher helicities, rather than the usual flat space extremes of all 2s + 1 massive or just 2 massless helicities. These gauge lines divide the (m²,Λ) plane into unitarily allowed or forbidden intermediate regions where all 2s + 1 massive helicities propagate but lower helicity states can have negative norms. We derive these consequences for s = 3/2,2 by studying both their canonical (anti)commutators and the transmutation of massive constraints to partially massless Bianchi identities. For s = 2, a Hamiltonian analysis exhibits the absence of zero helicity modes in the partially massless sector. For s =5/2,3 we derive Bianchi identities and their accompanying gauge invariances for the various partially massless theories with propagating helicities (±5/2,±3/2) and (±3,±2), (±3,±2,±1), respectively. Of these, only the s = 3 models are unitary. To these ends, we also provide the half integer generalization of the integer spin wave operators of Lichnerowicz. Partial masslessness applies to all higher spins in (A)dS as seen by their degree of freedom counts. Finally a derivation of massive d = 4 constraints by dimensional reduction from their d = 5 massless Bianchi identity ancestors is given.
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Additional Information: | © 2001 Elsevier. Received 22 March 2001, Accepted 24 April 2001, Available online 16 July 2001. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under grant PHY99-73935. | |||||||||
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Issue or Number: | 3 | |||||||||
Classification Code: | PACS 03.65.Pm; 03.70.+k; 04.62.+v; 04.65.+e | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00212-7 | |||||||||
Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20161216-094037789 | |||||||||
Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20161216-094037789 | |||||||||
Official Citation: | S. Deser, A. Waldron, Partial masslessness of higher spins in (A)dS, Nuclear Physics B, Volume 607, Issue 3, 30 July 2001, Pages 577-604, ISSN 0550-3213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00212-7. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321301002127) | |||||||||
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Deposited By: | George Porter | |||||||||
Deposited On: | 16 Dec 2016 22:54 | |||||||||
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