Consistent couplings between spin-2 and spin-3 massless fields

Nicolas Boulanger; Serge Leclercq

doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2006/11/034

Consistent couplings between spin-2 and spin-3 massless fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v3

Authors: Nicolas Boulanger , Serge Leclercq

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Abstract

We solve the problem of constructing consistent first-order cross-interactions between spin-2 and spin-3 massless fields in flat spacetime of arbitrary dimension n > 3 and in such a way that the deformed gauge algebra is non-Abelian. No assumptions are made on the number of derivatives involved in the Lagrangian, except that it should be finite. Together with locality, we also impose manifest Poincare invariance, parity invariance and analyticity of the deformations in the coupling constants.

Keywords

higher spin theory gauge invariance non-abelian gauge theory

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0609221,
  title  = {Consistent couplings between spin-2 and spin-3 massless fields},
  author = {Nicolas Boulanger and Serge Leclercq},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0609221},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

LaTeX file. 29 pages, no figures. Minor corrections. Accepted for publication in JHEP

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