Quantization of higher-spin fields with indefinite metric
- 15 April 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 17 (8) , 2022-2027
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.17.2022
Abstract
Quantization of fields of spins and 2 is carried out by decomposing them into simpler fields and using an indefinite metric. In the resulting ghost-field formalism, nonphysical states are eliminated by means of supplementary conditions, and the consistency of these conditions in the presence of interaction is established.
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