Topological mass generation to antisymmetric tensor matter field
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-07-19 v1
Abstract
We propose a mechanism to give mass to tensor matter field which preserve the U(1) symmetry. We introduce a complex vector field that couples with the tensor in a topological term. We also analyze the influence of the kinetic terms of the complex vector in our mechanism.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0412013,
title = {Topological mass generation to antisymmetric tensor matter field},
author = {L. Gonzaga and M. S. Cunha and R. R. Landim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0412013},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
5 pages, to appear in Europhysics Letters