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Dressing fields for supersymmetry: The cases of the Rarita-Schwinger and gravitino fields (2405.04379v1)
Published 7 May 2024 in hep-th and gr-qc
Abstract: In this paper we argue that the gauge-fixing conditions typically used to extract the (off-shell) degrees of freedom of the Rarita-Schwinger spinor-vector and gravitino, respectively in rigid supersymmetric field theory and supergravity, are actually instances of the dressing field method of symmetry reduction. Since the latter has a natural relation interpretation, solving the gauge-fixing condition" -- or, better,dressing functional constraints" -- actually realises the Rarita-Schwinger spinor-vector and the gravitino fields as (non-local) relational variables. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first application of the dressing field method to supersymmetric theories.
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