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Dimensional reduction and theories with massive gauge fields
Phys. Rev. D 32, 454 – Published 15 July, 1985
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.32.454
Abstract
We generalize the three-dimensional (Abelian) model of Deser, Jackiw, and Templeton with a gauge-invariant mass term to higher odd dimensions using antisymmetric tensor gauge fields. We show that this mass-generation mechanism for gauge fields is related through dimensional reduction to the gauge-mixing mechanism of Aurilia and Takahashi. We comment on possible scenarios for non-Abelian generalization.
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