Stueckelberg mechanism for antisymmetric tensor fields

Abstract

It is shown how vector Stueckelberg fields can be introduced to ensure gauge invariance for mass terms for an antisymmetric tensor field. Scalar Stueckelberg fields allow one to have gauge invariance for these vector fields. Both the Abelian and non-Abelian cases are considered. Fully antisymmetric rank-three tensor fields and symmetric rank-two tensor fields are also discussed. PACS No.: 11.15-1