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On Lagrangian formulations for (ir)reducible mixed-antisymmetric higher integer spin fields in Minkowski spaces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-02-16 v2 Mathematical Physics Dynamical Systems math.MP Representation Theory

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 Y[s^1,s^2,s^3]Y[\hat{s}_1,\hat{s}_2,\hat{s}_3] in dd-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 Φμ1[s^1],μ2[s^2],μ3[s^3]\Phi_{\mu^1[{\hat{s}_1}],\mu^2[{\hat{s}_2}], \mu^3[{\hat{s}_3}]} on a basis of the BRST method with complete, QQ, and incomplete, QcQ_c, BRST operators. We found unconstrained (with QQ) and constrained (with QcQ_c 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.

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@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