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Non-conformal higher spin supercurrents

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-04-23 v3

Abstract

In four spacetime dimensions there exist two off-shell formulations for the massless multiplet of superspin (s+12)(s+\frac 12), where s=2,3,s=2,3, \dots. These supersymmetric higher spin gauge theories, known as longitudinal and transverse, are dual to each other and describe two massless fields of spin (s+12)(s+\frac 12) and (s+1)(s+1) upon elimination of the auxiliary fields. They respectively reduce, in the limiting case of s=1s=1, to the linearised actions for the old minimal and the n=1n=-1 non-minimal N=1{\cal N}=1 supergravity theories. Associated with these gauge massless theories are non-conformal higher spin supercurrent multiplets which we describe. We demonstrate that the longitudinal higher spin supercurrents are realised in the model for a massive chiral scalar superfield only if ss is odd, s=2n+1s=2n+1, with n=1,2,n= 1,2, \dots.

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@article{arxiv.1710.10837,
  title  = {Non-conformal higher spin supercurrents},
  author = {Jessica Hutomo and Sergei M. Kuzenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.10837},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

12 pages; V2: typos corrected; V3: published version

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