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Bosonic conformal higher--spin fields of any symmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-01-21 v3

Abstract

Free Lagrangians are found both for gauge and non-gauge bosonic conformal fields of any symmetry type and in any space-time dimension. Conformal gauge fields of various types, their gauge transformations and gauge invariant field strengths (generalized Weyl tensors), which are derived by the σ\sigma_- cohomology technics in the frame-like formulation, are shown to correspond to supersymmetric vacua of certain supersymmetric matrix mechanics. The correspondence between conformal and AdSdAdS_d higher-spin models, that turn out to have identical generalized Weyl tensors, is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.0909.5226,
  title  = {Bosonic conformal higher--spin fields of any symmetry},
  author = {M. A. Vasiliev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.5226},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

55 pages, to the memory of Efim Samoilovich Fradkin; v2 minor corrections, comments and references added; V3 typos corrected references updated