Open AccessOn Massless Fields with Arbitrary Spin
Author(s) -
Reinhard Illge
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
zeitschrift für analysis und ihre anwendungen
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.567
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1661-4534
pISSN - 0232-2064
DOI - 10.4171/zaa/629
Subject(s) - massless particle , spin (aerodynamics) , physics , theoretical physics , mathematical physics , thermodynamics
A gauge field theory is proposed for symmetric spinor fields of valence (n+1,0) on a flat spacetime which generalizes the Maxwell theory of electromagnetism. Further we study firstorder equations for symmetric spinor fields of valence (1,n) which are consistent in arbitrarily curved spacetimes, conformally and gauge invariant and whose solutions satisfy the equations for the potentials of massless fields in flat spacetimes.
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