General heat kernel coefficients for massless free spin-3/2 Rarita-Schwinger field
Sudip Karan, Shashank Kumar, Binata Panda
TL;DR
This paper reviews the heat kernel method for spinor fields and computes the first three Seeley-DeWitt coefficients for the massless spin-3/2 Rarita-Schwinger field in general backgrounds.
Contribution
It provides the first comprehensive calculation of heat kernel coefficients for the massless spin-3/2 field without background restrictions.
Findings
Computed the first three Seeley-DeWitt coefficients for the Rarita-Schwinger field
Extended heat kernel techniques to higher-spin fields in arbitrary backgrounds
Provides tools for quantum field theory in curved spacetime
Abstract
We review the general heat kernel method for the Dirac spinor field as an elementary example in any arbitrary background. We, then compute the first three Seeley-DeWitt coefficients for the massless free spin-3/2 Rarita-Schwinger field without imposing any limitations on the background geometry.
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