Publication details
Dressing fields for supersymmetry: the cases of the Rarita-Schwinger and gravitino fields
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Journal of High Energy Physics |
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| web | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP07(2024)041 |
| Doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2024)041 |
| Keywords | Gauge Symmetry; Supergravity Models; Supersymmetric Gauge Theory |
| Description | In this paper we argue that the gauge-fixing conditions typically used to extract the (off-shell) degrees of freedom of the Rarita-Schwinger spinor-vector and gravitino, respectively in rigid supersymmetric field theory and supergravity, are actually instances of the dressing field method of symmetry reduction. Since the latter has a natural relation interpretation, solving the "gauge-fixing condition" - or, better, "dressing functional constraints" - actually realises the Rarita-Schwinger spinor-vector and the gravitino fields as (non-local) relational variables. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first application of the dressing field method to supersymmetric theories. |
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