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arxiv: hep-th/0102191 · v2 · submitted 2001-02-27 · ✦ hep-th

Wigner's little group, gauge transformations and dimensional descent

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keywords gaugetheorydescentdimensionalgrouplittlewigneracts
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We propose a technique called dimensional descent to show that Wigner's little group for massless particles, which acts as a generator of gauge transformation for usual Maxwell theory, has an identical role even for topologically massive gauge theories. The examples of $B\wedge F$ theory and Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory are analyzed in details.

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