TY - JOUR
T1 - Dynamical properties of antisymmetric tensor fields
AU - Deser, S.
AU - Witten, Edward
N1 - Funding Information:
* Research supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants PHY-78-09644A01 PHY-77-22864.
PY - 1981/2/16
Y1 - 1981/2/16
N2 - The physical degrees of freedom of free actions involving antisymmetric tensor fields are analyzed. While massless spin zero as well as massive vector particles can be represented by such fields, we show that massive scalars cannot, and that some actions have no dynamical content at all. We also show that electromagnetic (unlike gravitational) interactions cannot be included consistently in the spin zero case. Supersymmetric extension of the tensor formulation is given, and it is shown that, in analogous antisymmetric tensor-spinor incarnations, fermions cannot couple consistently to gravity.
AB - The physical degrees of freedom of free actions involving antisymmetric tensor fields are analyzed. While massless spin zero as well as massive vector particles can be represented by such fields, we show that massive scalars cannot, and that some actions have no dynamical content at all. We also show that electromagnetic (unlike gravitational) interactions cannot be included consistently in the spin zero case. Supersymmetric extension of the tensor formulation is given, and it is shown that, in analogous antisymmetric tensor-spinor incarnations, fermions cannot couple consistently to gravity.
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U2 - 10.1016/0550-3213(81)90168-1
DO - 10.1016/0550-3213(81)90168-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000186455
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 178
SP - 491
EP - 497
JO - Nuclear Physics, Section B
JF - Nuclear Physics, Section B
IS - 3
ER -