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Spinor description of $D=5$ massless low-spin gauge fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-07-19 v2

Abstract

Spinor description for the curvatures of D=5D=5 Yang-Mills, Rarita-Schwinger and gravitational fields is elaborated. Restrictions imposed on the curvature spinors by the dynamical equations and Bianchi identities are analyzed. In the absence of sources symmetric curvature spinors with 2s2s indices obey first-order equations that in the linearized limit reduce to Dirac-type equations for massless free fields. These equations allow for a higher-spin generalization similarly to 4d4d case. Their solution in the form of the integral over Lorentz-harmonic variables parametrizing coset manifold SO(1,4)/(SO(1,1)×ISO(3))SO(1,4)/(SO(1,1)\times ISO(3)) isomorphic to the three-sphere is considered. Superparticle model that contains such Lorentz harmonics as dynamical variables, as well as harmonics parametrizing the two-sphere SU(2)/U(1)SU(2)/U(1) is proposed. The states in its spectrum are given by the functions on S3S^3 that upon integrating over the Lorentz harmonics reproduce on-shell symmetric curvature spinors for various massless supermultiplets of D=5D=5 space-time supersymmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1506.01881,
  title  = {Spinor description of $D=5$ massless low-spin gauge fields},
  author = {D. V. Uvarov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.01881},
  year   = {2016}
}

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LaTeX, 19 pages; v2: comments and references added, typos corrected