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Surface charges and dynamical Killing tensors for higher spin gauge fields in constant curvature spaces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-02-03 v2

Abstract

In the context of massless higher spin gauge fields in constant curvature spaces, we compute the surface charges which generalize the electric charge for spin one, the color charges in Yang-Mills theories and the energy-momentum and angular momentum for asymptotically flat gravitational fields. We show that there is a one-to-one map from surface charges onto divergence free Killing tensors. These Killing tensors are computed by relating them to a cohomology group of the first quantized BRST model underlying the Fronsdal action.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0507138,
  title  = {Surface charges and dynamical Killing tensors for higher spin gauge fields in constant curvature spaces},
  author = {G. Barnich and N. Bouatta and M. Grigoriev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0507138},
  year   = {2010}
}

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