We construct the Rarita-Schwinger basis vectors, , spanning the direct product space, , of a massless four-vector, , with massless Majorana spinors, , together with the associated field-strength tensor, . The space is reducible and contains one massless subspace of a pure spin- . We show how to single out the latter in a unique way by acting on with an earlier derived momentum independent projector, , properly constructed from one of the Casimir operators of the algebra of the homogeneous Lorentz group. In this way it becomes possible to describe the irreducible massless carrier space by means of the anti-symmetric-tensor of second rank with Majorana spinor components, defined as $\left[ w^{(3/2,0) }\right]^{\mu\nu}:=\left[{\mathcal P}^{(3/2,0)}\right]^{\mu \nu},,{\gamma\delta}{\mathcal T}^{\gamma \delta }$. The conclusion is that the bi-vector spinor field can play the same role with respect to a gauge field as the bi-vector, , associated with the electromagnetic field-strength tensor, , plays for the Maxwell gauge field, . Correspondingly, we find the free electromagnetic field equation, , is paralleled by the free massless Rarita-Schwinger field equation, $p^\mu \left[ w^{(3/2,0)}\right]{\mu\nu}=0\gamma^\mu\gamma^\nu \left[ w^{(3/2,0)}\right]_{\mu \nu} =0$, a constraint that invokes the Majorana sector.

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