Gauging internal fermionic symmetries and spin-3/2 fields
Published in:
Modern Physics Letters A 18,16 (2003) 1099-1105;
Link to original published article:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0217732303010855
Abstract
Field theoretic models possessing a global internal fermionic shift symmetry are considered. When such a symmetry is realized locally, spin-3/2 fields appear naturally as gauge fields. Implementation of the gauging procedure requires not only the usual replacement of ordinary derivatives by covariant derivatives containing the spin-3/2 fields, but also the inclusion of additional monomials. The Higgs mechanism and the high energy Nambu-Goldstone fermion equivalence theorem axe explicitly demonstrated.
Keywords
gauge;; fermionic;; symmetry;; spin-3/2;; energy equivalence theorem;; s-matrix;; supergravity
Date of this Version
January 2003
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