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We revisit Wald’s analysis of [5] in the context of spin-one fields in three dimensions. A key technical difference from Wald’s is the role played by the three dimensional completely antisymmetric tensor. We show how this changes the analysis as well as the result from that of [5].
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Bera, N., Das, S. & Ezhuthachan, B. Wald type analysis for spin-one fields in three dimensions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 160 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2017)160
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