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On presymplectic structures for massless higher-spin fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-03-17 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

A natural presymplectic structure for non-Lagrangian equations of motion governing the dynamics of free higher-spin fields in four-dimensional anti-de Sitter space is proposed. This presymplectic structure is then used to the derivation of the conserved currents associated with the relativistic invariance and to the construction of local functionals of fields that are gauge invariant on shell.

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@article{arxiv.1602.06393,
  title  = {On presymplectic structures for massless higher-spin fields},
  author = {Alexey A. Sharapov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.06393},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

28 pages; V2 - a section on weak Lagrangians and some references added

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