Generalized soldering of $\pm 2$ helicity states in $D=2+1$

Details Generalized soldering of $\pm 2$ helicity states in $D=2+1$ Generalized soldering of $\pm 2$ helicity states in $D=2+1$

2009-06-24

arxiv.org/abs/0906.4531v1

Phys.Rev.D80:025017,2009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

12 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.80.025017

The direct sum of a couple of Maxwell-Chern-Simons (MCS) gauge theories of opposite helicities $\pm 1$ does not lead to a Proca theory in $D=2+1$, although both theories share the same spectrum. However, it is known that by adding an interference term between both helicities we can join the complementary pieces together and obtain the physically expected result. A generalized soldering procedure can be defined to generate the missing interference term. Here we show that the same procedure can be applied to join together $\pm 2$ helicity states in a full off-shell manner. In particular, by using second-order (in derivatives) self-dual models of helicities $\pm 2$ (spin two analogues of MCS models) the Fierz-Pauli theory is obtained after soldering. Remarkably, if we replace the second-order models by third-order self-dual models (linearized topologically massive gravity) of opposite helicities we end up after soldering exactly with the new massive gravity theory of Bergshoeff, Hohm and Townsend in its linearized approximation.

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