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arxiv: 1806.01640 · v2 · pith:ETUZA2UKnew · submitted 2018-06-05 · ✦ hep-th

BRST approach to Lagrangian construction for bosonic continuous spin field

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We formulate the conditions defining the irreducible continuous spin representation of the four-dimensional Poincar\'e group based on spin-tensor fields with dotted and undotted indices. Such a formulation simplifies analysis of the Bargmann-Wigner equations and reduces the number of equations from four to three. Using this formulation we develop the BRST approach and derive the covariant Lagrangian for the continuous spin fields.

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