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More on Chiral Higher Spin Gravity and Convex Geometry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-04-05 v1

Abstract

Recently, a unique class of local Higher Spin Gravities with propagating massless fields in 4d4d - Chiral Higher Spin Gravity - was given a covariant formulation both in flat and (A)dS4(A)dS_4 spacetimes at the level of equations of motion. We unfold the corresponding homological perturbation theory as to explicitly obtain all interaction vertices. The vertices reveal a remarkable simplicity after an appropriate change of variables. Similarly to formality theorems the A/LA_\infty/L_\infty multi-linear products can be represented as integrals over a configuration space, which in our case is the space of convex polygons. The AA_\infty-algebra underlying Chiral Theory is of pre-Calabi-Yau type. As a consequence, the equations of motion have the Poisson sigma-model form.

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@article{arxiv.2209.15441,
  title  = {More on Chiral Higher Spin Gravity and Convex Geometry},
  author = {Alexey Sharapov and Evgeny Skvortsov and Arseny Sukhanov and Richard Van Dongen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.15441},
  year   = {2023}
}

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41 pages + Appendices + Biblio = 61 pages

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