Fields with Higher or Arbitrary Spin  

In General > s.a. Anti-de Sitter; boundaries in field theory; types of gauge theories.
* Problem: Fields with spin higher than 2 do not couple satisfactorily to spin-2 and other fields.
@ Intros, reviews: Sorokin ht/04-in; Bouatta et al ht/04-in.
@ Lagrangians: Francia & Sagnotti PLB(05)ht; Francia NPB(08) [massive, arbitrary s]; Fotopoulos & Tsulaia a0805-in [free and interacting, gauge-invariant, BRST approach].
@ General references: Majorana NC(32) [infinite-component equation]; Fierz & Pauli PRS(39); Rarita & Schwinger PR(41); Schwinger 70, 73; Henneaux & Teitelboim in(89); Vasiliev PLB(90); Illge CMP(93); Grigore ht/94; Plyushchay EJTP(06)mp [Majorana equation, anyons]; Fedoruk & Ivanov CQG(06), ht/07-in ['master' system]; Bastianelli et al JHEP(07)ht [worldline perspective]; Engquist & Hohm JHEP(08) [frame formalism].

Special Types of Theories and Backgrounds > s.a. [low-spin fields]; FRW spacetime.
@ General references: Pol'shin gq/98, gq/98, gq/98 [curved spacetime]; Vasiliev ht/01-in [AdS4]; Gornik & Mankoc-Borstnik HJ(03)ht/01, ht/01 [m = 0, even D].
@ Diffeomorphism-invariant: Pons et al PRD(97)gq/96 [gauge transformations]; Bordemann & Hoppe JMP(98); Barbero & Villaseñor PRD(00)gq/99 [free, no local degrees of freedom].
@ Spin-5/2 fields: Metsaev PRD(08) [interactions, in (A)dS space]; > s.a. Hypergravity.
@ Spin-3 fields: Zinoviev a0805 [interaction with gravity].
@ Massive, s > 1: Deser & Waldron PRL(01)ht [and gauge], NPB(02)ht/01 [problems], Deser gq/02-in, Deser gq/03-in [de Sitter]; Zecca IJTP(06) [in Schwarzschild, separation of variables].
@ Massless bosonic: Bell & Szekeres IJTP(72) [any spin, curved spacetime]; Frønsdal PRD(78); Labastida PRL(87); Ouvry ZPC(88); Couch & Torrence GRG(89) [spherically symmetric spacetime]; Brooke & Schroeck JMP(96); Vasiliev NPB(01)ht [in AdS5]; Sezgin & Sundell JHEP(02)ht; Boulanger & Leclercq JHEP(06)ht [coupling between spin-2 and spin-3].
@ Massive bosonic: Klishevich TMP(98)ht/97 [spin-2 and 3 gauge theory, Hamiltonian from non-canonical Lagrangian], CQG(99)ht/98 [in Einstein space], IJMPA(00)ht/98 [in em field], ht/00-in [interactions]; Buchbinder & Krykhtin NPB(05)ht, ht/05-in [BRST Lagrangian formulation]; Buchbinder et al NPB(07) [in AdS, gauge-invariant].
@ Fermionic, half-integer spin: Fang & Frønsdal PRD(78) [massless]; Frauendiener & Sparling JGP(99)gq/95; Klishevich IJMPA(00)ht/98 [in electromagnetic field]; Niederle & Nikitin PRD(01)ht/04 [wave equations]; Buchbinder & Krykhtin ht/05-in [massless, BRST approach].
@ Other types: Lindesay mp/03, mp/03 [linear spinor fields]; Bandos et al JHEP(05)ht [conformally invariant].
@ Other backgrounds: Grigore JMP(94)ht, Gaitan a0711-PhD [2+1 dimensions]; Zecca IJTP(07) [with torsion].

Special Topics
@ Inconsistencies, restrictions: Dayi IJMPA(97)ht/96; Sudarshan FP(03) [rev].
@ Gyromagnetic things: Giannakis et al PLB(99)ht [gravitational quadrupole and supersymmetry].
@ Characteristic in-value form: Penrose GRG(80).
@ Fermions from/to bosons: Vachaspati PLB(98)ht/97; Daoud et al PAN(98)qp; > s.a. Bosonization, Dyon, Supersymmetry.
@ Symmetries: Anco & Pohjanpelto PRS(03)mp/02 [conserved currents]; Pohjanpelto & Anco SIGMA(08)-a0801 [generalized].


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