Uniformizing higher-spin equations
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-23 v2 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
Vasiliev's higher-spin theories in various dimensions are uniformly represented as a simple system of equations. These equations and their gauge invariances are based on two superalgebras and have a transparent algebraic meaning. For a given higher-spin theory these algebras can be inferred from the vacuum higher-spin symmetries. The proposed system of equations admits a concise AKSZ formulation. We also discuss novel higher-spin systems including partially-massless and massive fields in AdS, as well as conformal and massless off-shell fields.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1409.6507,
title = {Uniformizing higher-spin equations},
author = {K. B. Alkalaev and Maxim Grigoriev and E. D. Skvortsov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6507},
year = {2015}
}
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29 pages, references added, final version