On Lagrangian formulations for (ir)reducible mixed-antisymmetric higher integer spin fields in Minkowski spaces
Abstract
We extend the results of Lagrangian formulations study to construct gauge-invariant Lagrangians for (ir)reducible integer higher-spin massless and massive representations of the Poincare group with a Young tableau in -dimensional flat space-time (as the probable candidates to describe the Dark Matter problem beyond the SM). These particles are described within a metric-like formulation by tensor fields with 3 groups of antisymmetric Lorentz indices on a basis of the BRST method with complete, , and incomplete, , BRST operators. We found unconstrained (with ) and constrained (with and off-shell BRST invariant holonomic constraints) gauge Lagrangian formulations with different configuration spaces and reducibility stages. The deformation procedure to construct interacting gauge model with mixed-antisymmetric fields is proposed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2509.09490,
title = {On Lagrangian formulations for (ir)reducible mixed-antisymmetric higher integer spin fields in Minkowski spaces},
author = {Alexander A. Reshetnyak and Julia V. Bogdanova and Vipul K. Pandey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.09490},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
1+16 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, Contribution in Proceedings of XXV International Workshop-School High Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory (QFTHEP'270), Moscow, 30 June- 5 July, 2025; misprints corrected, published version