Massive Higher Spin Fields Coupled to a Scalar: Aspects of Interaction and Causality
arXiv:1308.5539 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2013.10.007
Abstract
We consider in detail the most general cubic Lagrangian which describes an interaction between two identical higher spin fieldsin a triplet formulation with a scalar field, all fields having the same values of the mass. After performing the gauge fixing procedure we find that for the case of massive fields the gauge invariance does not guarantee the preservation of the correct number of propagating physical degrees of freedom. In order to get the correct number of degrees of freedom for the massive higher spin field one should impose some additional conditions on parameters of the vertex. Further independent constraints are provided by the causality analysis, indicating that the requirement of causality should be imposed in addition to the requirement of gauge invariance in order to have a consistent propagation of massive higher spin fields.
34 pages, comments, references and one Appendix added. Typos corrected. Published version
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