A local action for fermionic unconstrained higher spin gauge fields in (A)dS space
Abstract
The local free action principle for bosonic unconstrained higher spin gauge fields in -dimensional (A)dS spacetime has been already established by Segal. However, later on, Schuster and Toro, in 4-dimensional flat spacetime, extracted such an action from their bosonic continuous spin gauge theory, when the continuous spin parameter vanishes. On the other hand, similar to the Schuster-Toro's action, we found the fermionic continuous spin gauge theory in 4-dimensional flat spacetime. Thus it is noteworthy to take out its fermionic higher spin formulation in a limit, and generalize it to -dimensional (A)dS spacetime. Therefore, in this paper, we will present a similar action principle \`a la Segal for fermions in -dimensional (A)dS spacetime. Moreover, at the level of equations of motion, we will demonstrate how the Fronsdal and the Fang-Fronsdal equations in -dimensional (A)dS spacetime are related, respectively, to the Euler-Lagrange equations of the bosonic and fermionic higher spin actions mentioned above.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1807.01124,
title = {A local action for fermionic unconstrained higher spin gauge fields in (A)dS space},
author = {Mojtaba Najafizadeh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.01124},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
24 pages. v3: Subsec. 2.4 was added. Abstract, introduction and conclusion improved to match the accepted version in PRD