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Spinor helicity structures in higher spin theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-02-26 v2

Abstract

It is shown that the coefficient of the cubic interaction vertex, in higher spin Lagrangians, has a very simple form when written in terms of spinor helicity products. The result for a higher-spin field, of spin λ\lambda, is equal to the corresponding Yang-Mills coefficient raised to the power λ\lambda. Among other things, this suggests perturbative ties, similar to the KLT relations, between higher spin theories and pure Yang-Mills. This result is obtained in four-dimensional flat spacetime.

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@article{arxiv.1209.4960,
  title  = {Spinor helicity structures in higher spin theories},
  author = {Sudarshan Ananth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.4960},
  year   = {2020}
}

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5 pages. v2: minor changes, references added

R2 v1 2026-06-21T22:09:21.217Z