Accession Number:
AD0621090
Title:
LAGRANGIAN THEORY FOR THE SECOND-RANK TENSOR FIELD,
Descriptive Note:
Corporate Author:
FLOYD NEWMAN LAB OF NUCLEAR STUDIES CORNELL UNIV ITHACA N Y
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Report Date:
1964-08-26
Pagination or Media Count:
7.0
Abstract:
The second-rank field is decomposed into its various subspaces under the Lorentz group and the appropriate projection operators are exhibited explicitly. The most general local, Hermitian, free-field Lagrangian which can be formed from this field is written down, and the corresponding equations of motion and subsidiary conditions are derived by means of a variational principle. Finally some possible applications of this theory are discussed in particular spin-2 boson theory, and all the possible couplings of this field to a Dirac particle are listed in full.