Polarization Vectors, Doublet Structure and Wigner's Little Group in...

[Tomy Scaria]

Title: Polarization Vectors, Doublet Structure and Wigner's Little Group in
Planar Field Theory

Author(s): Rabin Banerjee, Biswajit Chakraborty and Tomy Scaria

We establish the equivalence of the Maxwell-Chern-Simons-Proca model to a
doublet of Maxwell-Chern-Simons models at the level of polarization vectors of
the basic fields using both Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms. The analysis
reveals a U(1) invariance of the polarization vectors in the momentum space.
Its implications are discussed. We also study the role of Wigner's little group
as a generator of gauge transformations in three space-time dimensions.

Paper: hep-th/0011011
Dated: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 06:30:29 GMT (20kb)
Comments: LaTex, 30 pages, no figures

URL: http://arXiv.org/abs/hep-th/0011011