Physics Letters B 783 (2018) 387–391
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Soldering spin-3/2 fermions in D = 2 + 1
E.L. Mendonça
∗
, D.S. Lima, A.L.R. dos Santos
UNESP – Campus de Guaratinguetá – DFQ, Av. Dr. Ariberto Pereira da Cunha, 333, CEP 12516-410, Guaratinguetá, SP, Brazil
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
11 May 2018
Received
in revised form 13 June 2018
Accepted
3 July 2018
Available
online 9 July 2018
Editor:
J. Hisano
The soldering procedure has been for the first time generalized to the case of spin-3/2 fermionic theories.
We have demonstrated that the fermionic part of the so-called “New Topologically Massive Supergravity”
theory, which is of third order in derivatives, can be soldered in order to obtain a fourth order doublet
model
analogue to the linearized version of the New Massive Gravity theory, while the soldering of two
second order self-dual models give us a theory similar to the linearized version of the Einstein–Hilbert–
Fierz–Pauli
theory.
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1. Introduction
In D = 2 + 1dimensions self-dual models describes massive
particles with spin +s or −s. Depending on the spin, we have a
different number of self-dual descriptions. In the spin-1 case for
example we have two self-dual descriptions, while in the spin-2
case we have four. The models differ each other by an order in
derivatives and by gauge invariance under a given symmetry or a
set of them.
We
have studied in [1]the connection among three massive
spin-3/2self-dual versions of first, second and third order in
derivatives through symmetry arguments. We have also considered
an analogue version of the Proca (or Fierz–Pauli) theory which is
second order in derivatives and which by means of the Fierz–Pauli
conditions describes correctly two massive propagating modes of
helicities +3/2 and −3/2. This doublet model
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is by its turn con-
nected
to a fourth order doublet model which we believe is free
of ghosts. We have argued that, due the similarities, the fourth
order model could be interpreted as the spin-3/2version of the
linearized New Massive Gravity (NMG) [2]. However, it is unclear
so far if it is possible to obtain the doublet models from the self-
dual
ones as well as the first order self-dual model from the de-
composition
of the second order doublet model. That is what we
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E-mail
addresses: eliasleite@feg.unesp.br (E.L. Mendonça),
diegos.lima88@hotmail.com (D.S. Lima), alessandroribeiros@yahoo.com.br
(A.L.R. dos Santos).
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All along the work we use the terminology of singlet models meaning that the
models carries only a unique helicity +3/2or −3/2, while the doublet models car-
ries
both of them together.
are going to address in the following lines using the soldering ap-
proach,
which we briefly describe in the next paragraphs.
The
soldering approach is only one of the several tools we
have to investigate dualities. The technique was first introduced by
Stone many years ago [3], and since then it has been used on the
study of dual aspects of physical systems with many applications
in different contexts as well as in different dimensions. Electro-
magnetic
dualities can be explored through the soldering proce-
dure
providing new point of views of the same physics [4]. The
quantization of strings and also other theoretical models encour-
aged
the study of chiral bosons in the nineties. In this context the
authors in [5](seealso references therein) have used the solder-
ing
formalism to combine the opposite chiralities of the Schwinger
model. As a consequence they have noticed that the formalism
could be generalized leading us either to the vector or to the axial
models depending on a constant parameter α =±1. A brief and
interesting note [6] has showed us that even in the presence of
non-commutative field theories the soldering formalism can be ap-
plied.
Although the several generalizations and applications of the
technique we do not know an example of the soldering procedure
applied to the case of fermionic fields.
In
[7]the authors have noticed that in the spin-1 case the first
order self-dual model can be understood as the “square root” of
the Proca theory (which carries a doublet of spins ±1), in such a
way that it is equivalent to the direct sum of first order self-dual
models with opposite helicities. We can notice that once the first-
order
self-dual model is equivalent to the Maxwell–Chern–Simons
(MC S) model (the second order description) one can expect that
the direct sum of two MCS models will also produce the Proca
theory, but that is not true. To obtain the Proca theory from the
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