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Projectively-Compact Spinor Vertices and Space-Time Spin-Locality in Higher-Spin Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-09-08 v2

Abstract

The concepts of compact and projectively-compact spin-local spinor vertices are introduced. Vertices of this type are shown to be space-time spin-local, i.e. their restriction to any finite subset of fields is space-time local. The known spinor spin-local cubic vertices with the minimal number of space-time derivatives are verified to be projectively-compact. This has the important consequence that spinor spin-locality of the respective quartic vertices would imply their space-time spin-locality. More generally, it is argued that the proper class of solutions of the non-linear higher-spin equations that leads to the minimally non-local (presumably space-time spin-local) vertices is represented by the projectively-compact vertices. The related aspects of the higher-spin holographic correspondence are briefly discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2208.02004,
  title  = {Projectively-Compact Spinor Vertices and Space-Time Spin-Locality in Higher-Spin Theory},
  author = {M. A. Vasiliev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.02004},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

21 pages, no figures; V2: typos and wrong reference corrected, minor comments added. Matches the published version

R2 v1 2026-06-25T01:26:40.498Z