An axial gauge ansatz for higher spin theories
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-19 v3
Abstract
We present an ansatz which makes the equations of motion more tractable for the simplest of Vasiliev's four-dimensional higher spin theories. The ansatz is similar to axial gauge in electromagnetism. We present a broad class of solutions in the gauge where the spatial connection vanishes, and we discuss the lift of one of these solutions to a full spacetime solution via a gauge transformation.
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@article{arxiv.1405.7045,
title = {An axial gauge ansatz for higher spin theories},
author = {Steven S. Gubser and Wei Song},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.7045},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
12 pages. v2: Noted a complication with spacetime interpretation. v3: Revised section 4, correcting a limiting process