23 research outputs found
BRST cohomological results on the massless tensor field with the mixed symmetry of the Riemann tensor
The basic BRST cohomological properties of a free, massless tensor field with
the mixed symmetry of the Riemann tensor are studied in detail. It is shown
that any non-trivial co-cycle from the local BRST cohomology group can be taken
to stop at antighost number three, its last component belonging to the
cohomology of the exterior longitudinal derivative and containing non-trivial
elements from the (invariant) characteristic cohomology.Comment: 39 page
Interactions of a massless tensor field with the mixed symmetry of the Riemann tensor. No-go results
Non-trivial, consistent interactions of a free, massless tensor field t_{\mu
\nu |\alpha \beta} with the mixed symmetry of the Riemann tensor are studied in
the following cases: self-couplings, cross-interactions with a Pauli-Fierz
field and cross-couplings with purely matter theories. The main results,
obtained from BRST cohomological techniques under the assumptions on
smoothness, locality, Lorentz covariance and Poincar\'{e} invariance of the
deformations, combined with the requirement that the interacting Lagrangian is
at most second-order derivative, can be synthesized into: no consistent
self-couplings exist, but a cosmological-like term; no cross-interactions with
the Pauli-Fierz field can be added; no non-trivial consistent cross-couplings
with the matter theories such that the matter fields gain gauge transformations
are allowed.Comment: for version 3: 45 pages, uses amssymb; shortened version, the three
appendices from version 2 can be found in hep-th/040209
Two-dimensional interactions between a BF-type theory and a collection of vector fields
Consistent interactions that can be added to a two-dimensional, free abelian
gauge theory comprising a special class of BF-type models and a collection of
vector fields are constructed from the deformation of the solution to the
master equation based on specific cohomological techniques. The deformation
procedure modifies the Lagrangian action, the gauge transformations, as well as
the accompanying algebra of the interacting model.Comment: LaTeX 2e, 31 page
On the generalized Freedman-Townsend model
Consistent interactions that can be added to a free, Abelian gauge theory
comprising a finite collection of BF models and a finite set of two-form gauge
fields (with the Lagrangian action written in first-order form as a sum of
Abelian Freedman-Townsend models) are constructed from the deformation of the
solution to the master equation based on specific cohomological techniques.
Under the hypotheses of smoothness in the coupling constant, locality, Lorentz
covariance, and Poincare invariance of the interactions, supplemented with the
requirement on the preservation of the number of derivatives on each field with
respect to the free theory, we obtain that the deformation procedure modifies
the Lagrangian action, the gauge transformations as well as the accompanying
algebra. The interacting Lagrangian action contains a generalized version of
non-Abelian Freedman-Townsend model. The consistency of interactions to all
orders in the coupling constant unfolds certain equations, which are shown to
have solutions.Comment: LaTeX, 62 page
Consistent interactions of dual linearized gravity in D=5: couplings with a topological BF model
Under some plausible assumptions, we find that the dual formulation of
linearized gravity in D=5 can be nontrivially coupled to the topological BF
model in such a way that the interacting theory exhibits a deformed gauge
algebra and some deformed, on-shell reducibility relations. Moreover, the
tensor field with the mixed symmetry (2,1) gains some shift gauge
transformations with parameters from the BF sector.Comment: 63 pages, accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J.
Four-dimensional couplings among BF and massless Rarita-Schwinger theories: a BRST cohomological approach
The local and manifestly covariant Lagrangian interactions in four spacetime
dimensions that can be added to a free model that describes a massless
Rarita-Schwinger theory and an Abelian BF theory are constructed by means of
deforming the solution to the master equation on behalf of specific
cohomological techniques.Comment: 59 page