Mass generation for Self-dual Gauge Fields via Topologically Coupling

Abstract

We study the mass generation of self-dual two form gauge field by topologically coupling it to the three rank anti-symmetric field. We use the various non-covariant Lagrangian of self-dual two form to perform the analysis and find that the field equation of massive self-dual two form gauge field may be described by ${\partial }^2{B}^{ab}+m^2{B}^{ab}=0$ or ${\partial }_c(F^{cab}-{\tilde{F}}^{cab})+m^2{B}^{ab}=0$. We also find that, depending on the formulation of self-dual two form gauge field, the three rank anti-symmetric field may or may not be totally eliminated. Thus the different Lagrangian will show different mass generation mechanisms.

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