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We present a fermion model characterized by an anticommuting-parameter shift symmetry. The Hamiltonian formulation exhibits a combination of first-class and second-class constraints. We derive the well-known Dirac equation by fixing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-30 Mauricio Valenzuela

We study gauge and gravitational anomalies of fermions and 2-form fields on eight-dimensional spin manifolds. Possible global gauge anomalies are classified by spin bordism groups $\Omega^{\text{spin}}_9(BG)$ which we determine by spectral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Yasunori Lee , Kazuya Yonekura

We employ on-shell methods to construct scattering amplitudes and derive effective theories involving massive spin-3/2 fermions interacting with spin 0, 1 and 2 bosons. The four-point massive amplitudes are constructed using an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-18 Tony Gherghetta , Wenqi Ke

We suggest model equations, which, from some point of view, describe local interaction of three physical fields: a field of matter, an electromagnetic field and a gravitational field. A base of the model is a field of matter described by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. G. Marchuk

We study the inclusion of fermionic degrees of freedom and ${\cal N}=1$ supersymmetry in 4-dimensional manifolds with arbitrary torsion and non-metricity tensors deforming the connection. We inspect the closure of local diffeomorphism,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-27 Cecilia Bejarano , Eric Lescano

A gauge theory for a superalgebra that includes an internal gauge (G) and local Lorentz algebras, and that could describe the low energy particle phenomenology is constructed. These two symmetries are connected by fermionic supercharges.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-07 Pedro D. Alvarez , Pablo Pais , Jorge Zanelli

In our companion papers, we managed to derive a connection formulation of Lorentzian General Relativity in D+1 dimensions with compact gauge group SO(D+1) such that the connection is Poisson commuting, which implies that Loop Quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-13 Norbert Bodendorfer , Thomas Thiemann , Andreas Thurn

The unique off-shell fermionic gauge invariance of a vector-spinor field theory is found, and the invariant action is derived. The latter is Weyl invariant in any dimension in the massless limit, and it coincides with the singular point of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Dario Sauro

General Relativity (GR) exists in different formulations, which are equivalent in pure gravity. Once matter is included, however, observable predictions generically depend on the version of GR. In order to quantify the resulting ambiguity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-04 Claire Rigouzzo , Sebastian Zell

We solve the problem of constructing consistent first-order cross-interactions between spin-2 and spin-3 massless fields in flat spacetime of arbitrary dimension n > 3 and in such a way that the deformed gauge algebra is non-Abelian. No…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nicolas Boulanger , Serge Leclercq

Dirac fermion fields are responsible for spontaneous symmetry breaking in gauge gravitation theory because the spin structure associated with a tetrad field is not preserved under general covariant transformations. Two solutions of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Sardanashvily

All consistent interactions in a three-dimensional theory with tensor gauge fields of degrees two and three are obtained by means of the deformation of the solution to the master equation combined with cohomological techniques. The local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 S. O. Saliu

We consider $AdS_3$ $N$-extended Chern-Simons supergravity (\`a la Achucarro-Tonswend) and we study its gauge symmetries. We promote those gauge symmetries to a BRST symmetry and we perform its quantization by choosing suitable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 L. Andrianopoli , B. L. Cerchiai , P. A. Grassi , M. Trigiante

We classify all the first-order vertices of gravity consistently coupled to a system of 2-form gauge fields by computing the local BRST cohomology H(s|d) in ghost number 0 and form degree n. The consistent deformations are at most linear in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Xavier Bekaert , Bernard Knaepen , Christiane Schomblond

The interactions that can be introduced between a massless Rarita-Schwinger field and an Abelian three-form gauge field in eleven spacetime dimensions are analyzed in the context of the deformation of the free solution of the master…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-04 E. M. Cioroianu , E. Diaconu , S. C. Sararu

We derive the interaction of fermions with a dynamical space-time based on the postulate that the description of physics should be independent of the reference frame, which means to require the form-invariance of the fermion action under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-31 Jürgen Struckmeier , David Vasak

This manuscript is devoted to introduce a gauge theory of the Lorentz Group based on the ambiguity emerging in dealing with isometric diffeo-morphism-induced Lorentz transformations. The behaviors under local transformations of fermion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Nakia Carlevaro , Orchidea Maria Lecian , Giovanni Montani

We introduce an $N=1$ supergravity model based on the gauged shift symmetry of a single chiral multiplet, which can be identified with the string dilaton or a compactification modulus. The model allows for a tunably small and positive value…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 Rob Knoops

Recently, a unique class of local Higher Spin Gravities with propagating massless fields in $4d$ - Chiral Higher Spin Gravity - was given a covariant formulation both in flat and $(A)dS_4$ spacetimes at the level of equations of motion. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Alexey Sharapov , Evgeny Skvortsov , Arseny Sukhanov , Richard Van Dongen

We provide an off-shell formulation of four-dimensional higher spin gravity based on a covariant Hamiltonian action on an open nine-dimensional Poisson manifold whose boundary consists of the direct product of spacetime and a noncommutative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-29 Nicolas Boulanger , Ergin Sezgin , Per Sundell