On the theoretical problems in constructing interactions involving higher-spin massless particles
Abstract
It is shown that a gauge theory of self-interacting massless spin-3 particles which is analogous to Yang-Mills or the theory of gravity does not exist. A way out may be the existence of an interacting infinite family of massless particles of various spins. The first-order interactions which are possible between such particles show a remarkable structure. This is established by explicit construction. Detailed results are obtained for the possible algebraic structures which one may obtain for gauge theories which are induced from the gauge invariance of free lagrangians.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics B
- Pub Date:
- October 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0550-3213(85)90074-4
- Bibcode:
- 1985NuPhB.260..295B