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Four-dimensional couplings among BF and massless Rarita–Schwinger theories: a BRST cohomological approach

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The local and manifestly covariant Lagrangian interactions in four spacetime dimensions that can be added to a free model that describes a massless Rarita–Schwinger theory and an Abelian BF theory are constructed by means of deforming the solution to the master equation using specific cohomological techniques.

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Bizdadea, C., Cioroianu, E.M., Saliu, S.O. et al. Four-dimensional couplings among BF and massless Rarita–Schwinger theories: a BRST cohomological approach. Eur. Phys. J. C 58, 123–149 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0720-5

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