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D-dimensional massless particle with extended gauge invariance

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We propose the model of DD-dimensional massless particle whose Lagrangian is given by the NN-th extrinsic curvature of world-line. The system has N+1N+1 gauge degrees of freedom constituting WW-like algebra; the classical trajectories of the model are space-like curves which obey the conditions kN+a=kNak_{N+a}=k_{N-a}, k2N=0k_{2N}=0, a=1,...,N1a=1,...,N-1, N[(D2)/2]N\leq[(D-2)/2], while the first NN curvatures kik_i remain arbitrary. We show that the model admits consistent formulation on the anti-De Sitter space. The solutions of the system are the massless irreducible representations of Poincar\'e group with NN nonzero helicities, which are equal to each other.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0009216,
  title  = {D-dimensional massless particle with extended gauge invariance},
  author = {A. Nersessian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0009216},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5pages, Talk given at IX Colloquium on Quantum groups and Integrable models (June 22-24, 2000, Prague)