Talk by Dmitri Sorokin

Can Chern-Simons or Rarita-Schwinger be a Volkov-Akulov Goldstone?

Abstract:
We will discuss properties of 3d non-linear models of vector and vector-spinor Goldstone fields associated with spontaneous breaking of certain higher-spin counterparts of supersymmetry (so-called Hietarinta algebras) whose Lagrangians are of a Volkov-Akulov type. At the quadratic order these Lagrangians contain, respectively, the Chern-Simons and the Rarita-Schwinger terms.

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