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BRST-BFV method to construct constrained Lagrangian formulations for (ir)reducible half-integer higher-spin Poincare group representations in Minkowski space is suggested. The procedure is derived by two ways: first, from the unconstrained BRST-BFV method for mixed-symmetry higher-spin fermionic fields subject to an arbitrary Young tableaux with k rows (suggested in Nucl. Phys. B 869 (2013) 523, arXiv:1211.1273) by extracting the second-class constraints subsystem, Ôα = (Ôa, Ô + a ), from a total super-algebra of constraints, second, in self-consistent way by means of finding BRST-extended initial off-shell algebraic constraints, Ôa. In both cases, the latter constraints supercommute on the constraint surface with constrained BRST operator QC and spin operators σ i C . The closedness of the superalgebra {QC, Ôa, σ i C } guarantees that the final gauge-invariant Lagrangian formulation is compatible with the off-shell algebraic constraints Ôa imposed on the field and gauge parameter vectors of the Hilbert space not depending from the ghosts and conversion auxiliary oscillators related to Ôa, in comparison with the vectors for unconstrained BRST-BFV Lagrangian formulation. The suggested constrained BRST-BFV approach is valid for both massive HS fields and integer HS fields in the second-order formulation. It is shown that the respective constrained and unconstrained Lagrangian formulations for (half)-integer HS fields with a given spin are equivalent. The constrained Lagrangians in ghost-independent and component (for initial spin-tensor field) are obtained and shown to coincide with the Fang-Fronsdal formulation for totally-symmetric HS field with respective off-shell gamma-traceless constraints. The triplet and unconstrained quartet Lagrangian formulations for the latter field are derived. The constrained BRST-BFV methods without off-shell constraints describe reducible half-integer HS Poincare group representations with multiple spins as a generalized triplet and provide a starting point for constructing unconstrained Lagrangian formulations by using the generalized quartet mechanism. A gauge-invariant Lagrangian constrained description for a massive spin-tensor field of spin n + 1/2 is obtained using a set of auxiliary Stueckelberg spin-tensors. A concept of BRST-invariant second-class constraints for dynamical systems with mixed-class constraints is suggested, leading to equivalent (w.r.t. the BRST-BFV prescription) results of quantization both at the operator level and in terms of the partition function.
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Reshetnyak, A.A. Constrained BRST-BFV Lagrangian formulations for higher spin fields in Minkowski spaces. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 104 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2018)104
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