Three-dimensional fractional-spin gravity

Boulanger, Nicolas; Sundell, Per; Valenzuela, Mauricio

Abstract

Using Wigner-deformed Heisenberg oscillators, we construct 3D Chern-Simons models consisting of fractional-spin fields coupled to higher-spin gravity and internal non-abelian gauge fields. The gauge algebras consist of Lorentz-tensorial Blencowe-Vasiliev higher-spin algebras and compact internal algebras intertwined by infinite-dimensional generators in lowest-weight representations of the Lorentz algebra with fractional spin. In integer or half-integer non-unitary cases, there exist truncations to gl(l, l +/- 1) or gl(l vertical bar l +/- 1) models. In all non-unitary cases, the internal gauge fields can be set to zero. At the semi-classical level, the fractional-spin fields are either Grassmann even or odd. The action requires the enveloping-algebra representation of the deformed oscillators, while their Fock-space representation suffices on-shell.

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Título según WOS: Three-dimensional fractional-spin gravity
Título de la Revista: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Número: 2
Editorial: Springer
Fecha de publicación: 2014
Idioma: English
URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/JHEP02(2014)052
DOI:

10.1007/JHEP02(2014)052

Notas: ISI