Mar, 2013
Gauge invariant and gauge fixed actions for various higher-spin fields from string field theory
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B
- Volume
- 868
- Number
- 1
- First page
- 75
- Last page
- 101
- Language
- English
- Publishing type
- Research paper (scientific journal)
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2012.11.008
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
We propose a systematic procedure for extracting gauge invariant and gauge fixed actions for various higher-spin gauge field theories from covariant bosonic open string field theory. By identifying minimal gauge invariant part for the original free string field theory action, we explicitly construct a class of covariantly gauge fixed actions with BRST and anti-BRST invariance. By expanding the actions with respect to the level N of string states, the actions for various massive fields including higher-spin fields are systematically obtained. As illustrating examples, we explicitly investigate the level N <= 3 part and obtain the consistent actions for massive graviton field, massive 3rd rank symmetric tensor field, or anti-symmetric field. We also investigate the tensionless limit of the actions and explicitly derive the gauge invariant and gauge fixed actions for general rank n symmetric and anti-symmetric tensor fields. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- DOI : 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2012.11.008
- ISSN : 0550-3213
- eISSN : 1873-1562
- J-Global ID : 201302269492623621
- SCOPUS ID : 84870481224
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000314194800005