Higher Spin Conserved Currents in $Sp(2M)$ Symmetric Spacetime
Abstract
Infinite set of higher spin conserved charges is found for the symmetric dynamical systems in -dimensional generalized spacetime . Since the dynamics in is equivalent to the conformal dynamics of infinite towers of fields in -dimensional Minkowski spacetime with for , respectively, the constructed currents in generate infinite towers of (mostly new) higher spin conformal currents in Minkowski spacetime. The charges have a form of integrals of -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 -dimensional integration surface 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.
Cite
@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