Eur. Phys. J. C 27, 457-465 (2003)
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s2002-01125-y

Lagrangian interactions within a special class of covariant mixed-symmetry type tensor gauge fields

C. Bizdadea, E.M. Cioroianu, I. Negru and S.O. Saliu

Faculty of Physics, University of Craiova, 13 A. I. Cuza Str., Craiova 1100, Romania

(Received: 21 November 2002 / Revised version: 9 December 2002 / Published online: 14 February 2003 )

Abstract
Consistent non-trivial interactions within a special class of covariant mixed-symmetry type tensor gauge fields of degree three are constructed from the deformation of the solution to the master equation combined with specific cohomological techniques. In spacetime dimensions strictly greater than four, the only consistent interaction terms are those gauge invariant under the original symmetry. Only in four spacetime dimensions the gauge symmetry is found to be deformed.

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