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Anomaly-free twistorial higher-spin theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-18 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We present twistor BV actions that encompasses many classically consistent bosonic holomorphic twistorial higher-spin theories with vanishing cosmological constant. Upon quantization, these actions are shown to be quantum consistent, i.e. no gauge anomaly, for some subclasses of twistorial higher-spin theories. Anomaly-free twistorial theories can be identified through an index theorem, which is a higher-spin extension of the Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch index theorem. We also discuss the anomaly cancellation mechanisms on twistor space to render anomalous theories quantum consistent at one loop.

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@article{arxiv.2505.13785,
  title  = {Anomaly-free twistorial higher-spin theories},
  author = {Tung Tran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.13785},
  year   = {2025}
}

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v2. revised version