Massive Rarita-Schwinger constraints

ID: massive-rarita-schwinger-constraints

For with , divergence gives . Gamma contraction then forces , hence . The remaining equation is in a mostly-plus convention. In the rest frame the temporal component vanishes, leaving a spatial vector times an on-shell two-component spinor; its gamma trace removes the spin-one-half sector. The remaining spin-three-halves representation has four physical states, including longitudinal helicities .

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