Massless chiral fields in six dimensions
Abstract
Massless chiral fields of arbitrary spin in six spacetime dimensions, also known as higher spin singletons, admit a simple formulation in terms of tensors. We show that, paralleling the four-dimensional case, these fields can be described using a -form and a gauge -form, taking values in totally symmetric tensors of . We then exhibit an example of interacting theory that couples a tower of singletons of all integer spin to a background of -valued higher spin fields, for an arbitrary Lie algebra equipped with an invariant symmetric bilinear form. Finally, we discuss the formulation of these models in arbitrary even dimensions, as well as their partially-massless counterpart.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.12800,
title = {Massless chiral fields in six dimensions},
author = {Thomas Basile},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12800},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
v2: A few typos corrected, clarification of the reducibility of gauge symmetries and additional comments on current interactions