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On the particle content of MHS theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-09-05 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The Moyal-Higher-Spin (MHS) formalism, involving fields dependent on spacetime and auxiliary coordinates, is an approach to studying higher spin (HS)-like models. To determine the particle content of the MHS model of the Yang-Mills type, we calculate the quartic Casimir operator for on-shell MHS fields, finding it generally non-vanishing, indicative of infinite/continuous-spin degrees of freedom. We propose an on-shell basis for these infinite/continuous-spin states. Additionally, we analyse the content of a massive MHS model.

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@article{arxiv.2409.02679,
  title  = {On the particle content of MHS theory},
  author = {Maro Cvitan and Predrag Dominis Prester and Stefano Giaccari and Mateo Paulišić and Ivan Vuković},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.02679},
  year   = {2024}
}

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32 pages