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Higher-spins on Taub-NUT and higher-spin Taub-NUT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-08-27 v1

Abstract

We consider higher-spin extensions of self-dual Yang-Mills (HS-SDYM) and self-dual Gravity (HS-SDGR), which are also truncations of chiral higher-spin gravity. Higher-spin fields can consistently propagate on gravitational instantons and we construct solutions to the higher-spin equations on the Taub-NUT background. We show that these solutions remain exact solutions of HS-SDYM. For HS-SDGR the perturbation theory converges for any given spin to give a higher-spin generalization of Taub-NUT and we identify a commutative non-associative algebra that governs the structure of the perturbation theory.

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@article{arxiv.2508.18804,
  title  = {Higher-spins on Taub-NUT and higher-spin Taub-NUT},
  author = {Evgeny Skvortsov and Yihao Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.18804},
  year   = {2025}
}

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30 pages