English

Higher Spins and Matter Interacting in Dimension Three

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-01-20 v2

Abstract

The spectrum of Prokushkin--Vasiliev Theory is puzzling in light of the Gaberdiel--Gopakumar conjecture because it generically contains an additional sector besides higher-spin gauge and scalar fields. We find the unique truncation of the theory avoiding this problem to order 2 in perturbations around AdS3_3. The second-order backreaction on the physical gauge sector induced by the scalars is computed explicitly. The cubic action for the physical fields is determined completely. We comment on a different higher-spin theory without such additional fields at λ=1\lambda=1.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1505.05887,
  title  = {Higher Spins and Matter Interacting in Dimension Three},
  author = {Pan Kessel and Gustavo Lucena Gomez and E. D. Skvortsov and Massimo Taronna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.05887},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

55 pages + appendices, LaTex. Final version to appear in JHEP

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