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Higher Spin Conserved Currents in $Sp(2M)$ Symmetric Spacetime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Infinite set of higher spin conserved charges is found for the sp(2M)sp(2M) symmetric dynamical systems in \f12M(M+1)\f{1}{2} M (M+1)-dimensional generalized spacetime \MM\M_M. Since the dynamics in \MM\M_M is equivalent to the conformal dynamics of infinite towers of fields in dd-dimensional Minkowski spacetime with d=3,4,6,10,...d=3,4,6,10,... for M=2,4,8,16,...M=2,4,8,16, ..., respectively, the constructed currents in \MM\M_M generate infinite towers of (mostly new) higher spin conformal currents in Minkowski spacetime. The charges have a form of integrals of MM-forms which are bilinear in the field variables and are closed as a consequence of the field equations. Conservation implies independence of a value of charge of a local variation of a MM-dimensional integration surface Σ\MM\Sigma \subset \M_M analogous to Cauchy surface in the usual spacetime. The scalar conserved charge provides an invariant bilinear form on the space of solutions of the field equations that gives rise to a positive definite norm on the space of quantum states.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0204167,
  title  = {Higher Spin Conserved Currents in $Sp(2M)$ Symmetric Spacetime},
  author = {M. A. Vasiliev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0204167},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Latex, 16 pages; no figures. Contribution to Quantum Field Theory, Gravity and Strings. Special issue of the Russian Physcs Journal dedicated to century of Tomsk State Pedagogical University

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