Mixed-symmetry multiplets and higher-spin curvatures
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-09-09 v2
Abstract
We study the higher-derivative equations for gauge potentials of arbitrary mixed-symmetry type obtained by setting to zero the divergences of the corresponding curvature tensors. We show that they propagate the same reducible multiplets as the Maxwell-like second-order equations for gauge fields subject to constrained gauge transformations. As an additional output of our analysis, we provide a streamlined presentation of the Ricci-like case, where the traces of the same curvature tensors are set to zero, and we present a simple algebraic evaluation of the particle content associated with the Labastida and with the Maxwell-like second-order equations.
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@article{arxiv.1501.02462,
title = {Mixed-symmetry multiplets and higher-spin curvatures},
author = {Xavier Bekaert and Nicolas Boulanger and Dario Francia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.02462},
year = {2015}
}
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24 pages