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arxiv: 0906.1432 · v2 · submitted 2009-06-08 · ✦ hep-th

Causal Propagation of a Charged Spin 3/2 Field in an External Electromagnetic Background

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keywords spinbackgroundchargeddegreeselectromagneticexternalfieldfreedom
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We present a Lagrangian for a massive, charged spin 3/2 field in a constant external electromagnetic background, which correctly propagates only physical degrees of freedom inside the light cone. The Velo-Zwanziger acausality and other pathologies such as loss of hyperbolicity or the appearance of unphysical degrees of freedom are avoided by a judicious choice of non-minimal couplings. No additional fields or equations besides the spin 3/2 ones are needed to solve the problem.

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