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Half-integer higher spin fields in (A)dS from spinning particle models

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We make use of O(2r + 1) spinning particle models to construct linearized higher-spin curvatures in (A)dS spaces for fields of arbitrary half-integer spin propagating in a space of arbitrary (even) dimension: the field potentials, whose curvatures are computed with the present models, are spinor-tensors of mixed symmetry corresponding to Young tableaux with \( \frac{D}{2} - 1 \) rows and r columns, thus reducing to totally symmetric spinor-tensors in four dimensions. The paper generalizes similar results obtained in the context of integer spins in (A)dS.

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Corradini, O. Half-integer higher spin fields in (A)dS from spinning particle models. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 113 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2010)113

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