Novel Properties of Massive Higher Spin Fields
| dc.creator | Deser, S. | |
| dc.date | 2003-06-11 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T11:46:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T11:46:20Z | |
| dc.description | I outline a series of results obtained in collaboration with A. Waldron on the properties of massive higher (s>1) spin fields in cosmological, constant curvature, backgrounds and the resulting unexpected qualitative effects on their degrees of freedom and unitarity properties. The dimensional parameter $Ł$ extends the flat space m-line to a $(m^2,Ł)$ "phase" plane in which these novel phenomena unfold. In this light, I discuss a possible partial resurrection of deSitter supergravity. I will also exhibit the well-known causality problems of coupling these systems to gravity and, for complex fields, to electromagnetism, systematizing some of the occasionally misunderstood obstacles to interactions, particularly for s = 3/2 and 2. | |
| dc.description | 9 pages, 1 figure. Invited talk at "Renormalization Group and Anomalies in Gravity and Cosmology", Ouro Preto, Brazil, March 17-23, 2003 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0306048 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0306048 | |
| dc.identifier | Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.127:36-44,2004 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(03)02398-3 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/202191 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Novel Properties of Massive Higher Spin Fields | |
| dc.type | text |