Transverse Invariant Higher Spin Fields
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
It is shown that a symmetric massless bosonic higher-spin field can be described by a traceless tensor field with reduced (transverse) gauge invariance. The Hamiltonian analysis of the transverse gauge invariant higher-spin models is used to control a number of degrees of freedom.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0701278,
title = {Transverse Invariant Higher Spin Fields},
author = {E. D. Skvortsov and M. A. Vasiliev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0701278},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
12 pages, no figures. The general proof and the example of a spin-3 added