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A note on rectangular partially massless fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-05-16 v2

Abstract

We study a class of non-unitary so(2,d) representations (for even values of d), describing mixed-symmetry partially massless fields which constitute natural candidates for defining higher-spin singletons of higher order. It is shown that this class of so(2,d) modules obeys of natural generalisation of a couple of defining properties of unitary higher-spin singletons. In particular, we find out that upon restriction to the subalgebra so(2,d-1), these representations branch onto a sum of modules describing partially massless fields of various depths. Finally, their tensor product is worked out in the particular case of d=4, where the appearance of a variety of mixed-symmetry partially massless fields in this decomposition is observed.

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@article{arxiv.1710.10572,
  title  = {A note on rectangular partially massless fields},
  author = {Thomas Basile},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.10572},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

31 pages, 4 figures; v2: typos corrected and references added

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