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Higher spin algebras as higher symmetries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-08-23 v2

Abstract

The exhaustive study of the rigid symmetries of arbitrary free field theories is motivated, along several lines, as a preliminary step in the completion of the higher-spin interaction problem in full generality. Some results for the simplest example (a scalar field) are reviewed and commented along these lines.

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@article{arxiv.0704.0898,
  title  = {Higher spin algebras as higher symmetries},
  author = {Xavier Bekaert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0898},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

14 pages, expanded version of the lectures presented at the ``5th international school and workshop on QFT & Hamiltonian systems'' (Calimanesti, May 2006); v2: minor corrections performed, comments added and refs updated