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Interactions of massless fermionic fields in three dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-04-02 v1

Abstract

All independent interaction vertices involving massless (Fang--Fronsdal) fermions in three dimensions are classified, completing the classification of interactions of massless fields of any spin. Similarly to the bosonic case, we get no independent vertices at quartic or higher order in the fields involving fields with spin s3/2s\geq 3/2, and cubic vertices only for spins satisfying triangle inequalities, apart from the cases involving (matter) fields with spin s1s\leq 1. Differently from the bosonic cases, we get only one vertex for each triple of spins with two Majorana fermions and one boson, which is parity even (odd) when the sum of the spins of all fields involved is odd (even). When the two Majorana fermions are identical, their coupling to an odd-spin boson is trivialized. We comment on the non-trivial holographic dictionary relating these vertices to CFTCFT correlators in two dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.2404.00497,
  title  = {Interactions of massless fermionic fields in three dimensions},
  author = {Stefan Fredenhagen and Filipp Lausch and Karapet Mkrtchyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.00497},
  year   = {2024}
}

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8 pages

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