Rindani, Saurabh D. ; Sivakumar, M. (1988) Hamiltonian formulation of a gauge-invariant massive spin-(3/2 theory) Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 37 (12). pp. 3543-3547. ISSN 1550-7998
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Official URL: http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v37/i12/p3543_1
Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.37.3543
Abstract
A gauge-invariant theory describing a free massive spin-(3/2 particle, obtained previously by dimensional reduction of a massless theory, is quantized using Dirac's procedure. The quantum theory is shown to be free from negative-norm states despite the absence of constraints obtained from differentiating the Lagrangian equations of motion (i.e., "secondary constraints"). This is in direct contrast to all other half-integral-spin theories avoiding secondary constraints, which invariably have indefinite metric.
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