On Action Invariance under Linear Spinor-Vector Supersymmetry
We show explicitly that a free Lagrangian expressed in terms of scalar, spinor, vector and Rarita-Schwinger (RS) fields is invariant under linear supersymmetry transformations generated by a global spinor-vector parameter. A (generalized) gauge invariance of the Lagrangian for the RS field is also d...
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| description | We show explicitly that a free Lagrangian expressed in terms of scalar, spinor, vector and Rarita-Schwinger (RS) fields is invariant under linear supersymmetry transformations generated by a global spinor-vector parameter. A (generalized) gauge invariance of the Lagrangian for the RS field is also discussed.
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Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications Vol. 2 (2006), Paper 009, 5 pages
On Action Invariance under Linear Spinor-Vector
Supersymmetry
Kazunari SHIMA and Motomu TSUDA
Laboratory of Physics, Saitama Institute of Technology, Okabe-machi, Saitama 369-0293, Japan
E-mail: shima@sit.ac.jp, tsuda@sit.ac.jp
Received October 21, 2005, in final form January 10, 2006; Published online January 24, 2006
Original article is available at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/2006/Paper009/
Abstract. We show explicitly that a free Lagrangian expressed in terms of scalar, spinor,
vector and Rarita–Schwinger (RS) fields is invariant under linear supersymmetry transfor-
mations generated by a global spinor-vector parameter. A (generalized) gauge invariance of
the Lagrangian for the RS field is also discussed.
Key words: spinor-vector supersymmetry; Rarita–Schwinger field
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 81T60
Both linear (L) [1] and nonlinear (NL) [2] supersymmetry (SUSY) are realized based on
a SUSY algebra where spinor generators are introduced in addition to Poincaré generators.
The relation between the L and the NL SUSY, i.e., the algebraic equivalence between various
(renormalizable) spontaneously broken L supermultiplets and a NL SUSY action [2] in terms of
a Nambu-Goldstone (NG) fermion has been investigated by many authors [3, 4, 5, 6].
An extension of the Volkov–Akulov (VA) model [2] of NL SUSY based on a spinor-vector
generator, called the spin-3/2 SUSY, hitherto, and its NL realization in terms of a spin-3/2
NG fermion have been constructed by N.S. Baaklini [7]. From the spin-3/2 NL SUSY model,
L realizations of the spin-3/2 SUSY are suggested as corresponding supermultiplets to a spin-
3/2 NL SUSY action [7] through a linearization. The linearization of the spin-3/2 NL SUSY
is also useful from the viewpoint towards constructing a SUSY composite unified theory based
on SO(10) super-Poincaré (SP) group (the superon-graviton model (SGM)) [8, 9], and it may
give new insight into an analogous mechanism with the super-Higgs one [10] for high spin fields
which appear in SGM (up to spin-3 fields).
Recently, we have studied the unitary representation of the spin-3/2 SUSY algebra in [7]
towards the linearization of the spin-3/2 NL SUSY [11]. Since the spinor-vector generator has
the role of creation and annihilation operators which raise or lower the helicity of states by 1/2
or by 3/2, the structure of the (physical) L supermultiplets induced from the spin-3/2 SUSY
algebra is shown for example as[
1
(
+
3
2
)
, 2(+1), 1
(
+
1
2
)
, 1(0), 2
(
−1
2
)
, 1(−1)
]
+ [ CPT conjugate ] (1)
for the massless case. In equation (1) n(λ) means the number of states n for the helicity λ.
Therefore, it is expected in the above examples that the spin-3/2 L supermultiplets contain
scalar, spinor, vector and Rarita–Schwinger (RS) fields as fundamental fields. In order to ex-
plicitly show that those fields constitute the spin-3/2 L supermultiplet, we have to prove an
action invariance under appropriate spin-3/2 L SUSY transformations whose commutator al-
gebras close as a representation of the Baaklini’s spin-3/2 SUSY algebra. Namely, we have to
determine the form of the spin-3/2 L SUSY transformations both from the action invariance
and from the closure of those commutator algebra.
mailto:shima@sit.ac.jp
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http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/2006/Paper009/
2 K. Shima and M. Tsuda
In this paper, as a first step to do these calculations we explicitly demonstrate the spin-3/2
L SUSY invariance of a free Lagrangian in terms of spin-(0±, 1/2, 1, 3/2) fields, and we discuss
the spin-3/2 L SUSY transformations determined from the invariance of the Lagrangian. Here
we just mention the relation to the so-called no-go theorem [12, 13] based upon the S-matrix
arguments, i.e. the case for the S-matrix (the true vacuum) is well defined. (Note that the
vacuum of NLSUSY VA model may have rich structures, for N = 1 VA model is equivalent to
N = 1 LSUSY scalar supermultiplet and also to N = 1 LSUSY axial vector supermultiplet as
we have proved.) We discuss in this paper the global L SUSY with spin-3/2 charges for the free
Lagrangian, which are free from the no-go theorem, so far. Those are important preliminaries
not only to find out a (spontaneously broken) LSUSY supermultiplet, which is equivalent to
the NL realization of the spin-3/2 SUSY algebra [7], but also to obtain some information for
linearizing the interacting global NL SUSY theory with spin-3/2 (NG) fields in curved spacetime
(i.e., the spin-3/2 SGM) [9]. From these viewpoints we think it is worthwhile presenting the
progress report along this direction.
Let us denote spin-(0±, 1/2, 1, 3/2) fields beside auxiliary fields as follows: namely, A and B
for scalar fields, λ for a (Majorana) spinor, va for a U(1) gauge field and λa for a (Majorana)
RS field. For these component fields we consider a parity conserving free Lagrangian given by1
L =
1
2
(∂aA)2 +
1
2
(∂aB)2 +
i
2
λ̄6∂λ− 1
4
(Fab)2 +
i
2
X1λ̄
a6∂λa +
i
2
X2(λ̄aγb∂aλb + λ̄aγa∂
bλb)
− 1
2
X3εabcdλ̄
aγ5γ
b∂cλd + Y1λ̄∂aλa + iY2λ̄σab∂aλb, (2)
where Fab = ∂avb − ∂bva, and Xi (for i = 1, 2, 3) with X3 = 1 − X1 and Yi (for i = 1, 2) are
arbitrary real parameters. Note that in equation (2) the general form of the Lagrangian for the
RS field λa is adopted, and also the derivative coupling kinetic-like terms expressed in terms of
λ and λa, as the last two terms are introduced without the loss of generality.
Furthermore, we define spin-3/2 L SUSY transformations generated by a global (Majorana)
spinor-vector parameter ζa as
δQA = iαζ̄aγaλ + a1ζ̄
aλa + ia2ζ̄aσ
abλb, (3)
δQB = α′ζ̄aγ5γaλ + ia′1ζ̄
aγ5λa + a′2ζ̄aγ5σ
abλb, (4)
δQva = α′′
1 ζ̄aλ + iα′′
2 ζ̄
bσabλ + ia′′1 ζ̄aγ
bλb + ia′′2 ζ̄
bγaλb + ia′′3 ζ̄
bγbλa + a′′4εabcdζ̄
bγ5γ
cλd, (5)
δQλ = β1ζ
a∂aA + iβ2σ
abζa∂bA + iβ′
1γ5ζ
a∂aB + β′
2γ5σ
abζa∂bB
+ iβ′′
1γaζbFab +
1
2
β′′
2 εabcdγ5γ
aζbF cd, (6)
δQλa = ib1γaζ
b∂bA + ib2γ
bζa∂bA + ib3γ
bζb∂aA + b4εabcdγ5γ
bζc∂dA
+ b′1γ5γaζ
b∂bB + b′2γ5γ
bζa∂bB + b′3γ5γ
bζb∂aB + ib′4εabcdγ
bζc∂dB
+ b′′1ζ
bFab + ib′′2σa
bζcFbc +
i
2
b′′3σ
bcζaFbc + ib′′4σ
bcζbFac +
i
2
b′′5εabcdγ5ζ
bF cd, (7)
where the α, α′, α′′
i (for i = 1, 2), βi (for i = 1, 2), β′
i (for i = 1, 2), β′′
i (for i = 1, 2), ai
(for i = 1, 2), a′i (for i = 1, 2), a′′i (for i = 1, . . . , 4), bi (for i = 1, . . . , 4), b′i (for i = 1, . . . , 4)
and b′′i (for i = 1, . . . , 5) are also arbitrary real parameters. The values of those parameters in
equation (2) and in equations from (3) to (7) are determined from conditions for the spin-3/2
SUSY invariance of the Lagrangian (2) as is shown below.
Application of the spin-3/2 SUSY transformations to equation (2) (3) to (7) gives various
terms as
δQL = F1(ζ̄aλa2A, ζ̄aλb∂a∂bA, ζ̄aσabλ
b2A, ζ̄aσbcλc∂a∂bA, ζ̄aσabλc∂
b∂cA)
1Minkowski spacetime indices are denoted by a, b, . . . = 0, 1, 2, 3. The Minkowski spacetime metric is
1
2
{γa, γb} = ηab = (+,−,−,−) and σab = i
4
[γa, γb].
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+ F2(ζ̄aγ5λa2B, ζ̄aγ5λ
b∂a∂bB, ζ̄aγ5σabλ
b2B, ζ̄aγ5σ
bcλc∂a∂bB, ζ̄aγ5σabλc∂
b∂cB)
+ F3(ζ̄aγaλ2A, ζ̄aγbλ∂a∂bA) + F4(ζ̄aγ5γaλ2B, ζ̄aγ5γ
bλ∂a∂bB)
+ F5(ζ̄aγbλb∂
cFac, ζ̄
aγbλa∂
cFbc, ζ̄
aγaλ
b∂cFbc, ζ̄
aγbλc∂cFab, ζ̄
aγbλc∂aFbc,
εabcdζ̄eγ5γaλb∂eFcd, ε
abcdζ̄aγ5γ
eλb∂eFcd, ε
abcdζ̄aγ5γbλ
e∂eFcd)
+ F6(ζ̄aλ∂bFab, ζ̄
aσabλ∂cF
bc, ζ̄aσbcλ∂bFac) + [ tot. der. terms ], (8)
where we have used the relation, ∂aFbc+∂cFab+∂bFca = 0. Therefore, the conditions for δQL = 0
(up to total derivative terms) are as follows; namely, the vanishing conditions of coefficients for
the each kind of the terms in equation (8) are
a1 + X1b2 + X2b3 + 2X3b4 −
1
4
Y2β2 = 0,
(X1 + 5X2)b1 + 2X2b2 + (X1 + X2)b3 − 2X3b4 + Y1β1 +
1
4
Y2β2 = 0,
a2 + 2X3b2 − 2X2b3 + 2(X1 −X3)b4 +
1
2
Y2β2 = 0,
(X1 −X2 − 2X3)b1 − (X2 + X3)b2 − (X1 −X3)b4 +
1
2
Y2
(
β1 −
1
2
β2
)
= 0,
(X2 −X3)b2 − (X1 + X2)b3 − (X1 + 2X2 −X3)b4 −
1
2
(
Y1 +
1
2
Y2
)
β2 = 0 (9)
for the terms in F1,
a′1 + X1b
′
2 + X2b
′
3 − 2X3b
′
4 +
1
4
Y2β
′
2 = 0,
(X1 + 5X2)b′1 + 2X2b
′
2 + (X1 + X2)b′3 + 2X3b
′
4 + Y1β
′
1 −
1
4
Y2β
′
2 = 0,
−a′2 + 2X3b
′
2 − 2X2b
′
3 − 2(X1 −X3)b′4 −
1
2
Y2β
′
2 = 0,
(X1 −X2 − 2X3)b′1 − (X2 + X3)b′2 + (X1 −X3)b′4 +
1
2
Y2
(
β′
1 +
1
2
β′
2
)
= 0,
(X2 −X3)b′2 − (X1 + X2)b′3 + (X1 + 2X2 −X3)b′4 +
1
2
(
Y1 +
1
2
Y2
)
β′
2 = 0 (10)
for the terms in F2,
2α + β2 + Y2b2 + 2Y1b3 − 2Y2b4 = 0,
2β1 − β2 + (2Y1 − 3Y2)b1 + (2Y1 − Y2)b2 + 2Y2b4 = 0 (11)
for the terms in F3,
−2α′ − β′
2 + Y2b
′
2 + 2Y1b
′
3 + 2Y2b
′
4 = 0,
2β′
1 + β′
2 + (2Y1 − 3Y2)b′1 + (2Y1 − Y2)b′2 − 2Y2b
′
4 = 0 (12)
for the terms in F4,
2a′′1 − 2X2b
′′
1 − (X1 − 2X3)b′′2 −X3b
′′
3 − 2X3b
′′
4 − Y2β
′′
1 = 0,
2a′′2 + X1b
′′
3 + (X2 + X3)b′′4 + 2X3b
′′
5 + Y2β
′′
2 = 0,
2a′′3 + X3b
′′
3 + (X1 −X2)b′′4 − 2X3b
′′
5 − Y2β
′′
2 = 0,
2(X1 + X2)b′′1 − (X1 + 3X2 − 2X3)b′′2 + (X2 −X3)b′′3 + (X2 −X3)b′′4 − (2Y1 + Y2)β′′
1 = 0,
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2X1b
′′
1 + (X2 + 2X3)b′′2 − (X2 + X3)b′′3 −X1b
′′
4 + 2X3b
′′
5 − Y2β
′′
1 + Y2β
′′
2 = 0,
2a′′4 + 2X3b
′′
1 − (X1 −X2 −X3)b′′2 + X2b
′′
3 + X2b
′′
4 + Y2β
′′
1 = 0,
2a′′4 −X3b
′′
3 + (X2 + X3)b′′4 − 2X1b
′′
5 + Y2β
′′
2 = 0,
2a′′4 −X2b
′′
3 + (X1 + 3X2)b′′4 + 2X2b
′′
5 − 2Y1β
′′
2 = 0 (13)
for the terms in F5, and
4(α′′
1 − β′′
1 ) + 4Y1b
′′
1 + 3Y2b
′′
2 − Y2b
′′
3 − Y2b
′′
4 = 0,
2(α′′
2 − 2β′′
2 ) + Y2b
′′
3 + (2Y1 + Y2)b′′4 − 2Y2b
′′
5 = 0,
4(β′′
1 − β′′
2 ) + 2Y2b
′′
1 + 2(Y1 − Y2)b′′2 − (2Y1 − Y2)b′′3 − Y2b
′′
4 − 2Y2b
′′
5 = 0 (14)
for the terms in F6. Up to the above arguments we can easily observe the existence of the
nontrivial solutions for equations from (9) to (14).
Note that if we choose tentatively the arbitrary parameters as
a′1 = a1, a′2 = −a2, b′i = bi (for i = 1, 2, 3), b′4 = −b4,
α′ = −α, β′
1 = β1, β′
2 = −β2, (15)
then the conditions in equation (10) and (12) are equal to those in equation (9) and (11),
respectively. We can find solutions of the parameters which satisfy the conditions (9) to (14)
with equation (15) , i.e., it can be shown that the Lagrangian (2) is invariant under the spin-3/2
SUSY transformation (3) to (7).
Here we notice a special example of solutions for the conditions (9) to (14), which is given
by X1 = X2 = Y1 = Y2 = 0 (it automatically gives X3 = 0 as is understood from the second
equation in equation (9)). This example means that the RS field does not contribute to equa-
tion (2), and then the free Lagrangian for the spin-(0±, 1/2, 1) fields is spin-3/2 SUSY invariant
under β2 = 2β1 = −2α (β′
2 = −2β′
1 = −2α′) and β′′
2 = β′′
1 = (1/2)α′′
2 = α′′
1. (However, in
this case commutator algebras for the spin-3/2 SUSY transformations (3) to (6) do not close as
a spin-3/2 SUSY representation of the Baaklini’s type [7].)
Let us also discuss on the invariance of the Lagrangian (2) under the gauge transformation
of the RS field. We define the (generalized) gauge transformation of λa generated by a local
spinor parameter ε as
δgλa = p∂aε + iqσab∂
bε, (16)
where p and q are arbitrary (real) parameters. The variation of equation (2) with respect to
equation (16) becomes
δgL = i
{
(X1 + X2)p−
1
2
(X1 + 3X2 − 2X3)q
}
λ̄a6∂∂aε+ i
{
X2p +
1
2
(X1 − 2X3)q
}
λ̄aγa2ε
+
(
Y1p +
3
4
Y2q
)
λ̄2ε + [ tot. der. terms ]. (17)
From equation (17) the conditions for δgL = 0 (up to total derivative terms) are read as
X2
1 + 3X2
2 + 2X1X2 − 4X2X3 − 2X1X3 = 0,
4Y1 p + 3Y2 q = 0. (18)
Therefore, the Lagrangian for λa in equation (2) is invariant under equation (16) for arbitrary
values of Xi, Yi, p and q which satisfy equation (18).
It can be also shown that the Lagrangian (2) is invariant under both the spin-3/2 SUSY
transformations (3) to (7) and the gauge transformation (16). We need further investigations
on the closure of commutator algebras for equations from (3) to (7) as a representation of the
spin-3/2 SUSY algebra in [7].
On Action Invariance under Linear Spinor-Vector Supersymmetry 5
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