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Vertex-Constraints in 3D Higher Spin Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-10-02 v1

Abstract

We analyse the constraints imposed by gauge invariance on higher-order interactions between massless bosonic fields in three-dimensional higher-spin gravities. We show that vertices of quartic and higher order that are independent of the cubic ones can only involve scalars and Maxwell fields. As a consequence, the full non-linear interactions of massless higher-spin fields are completely fixed by the cubic vertex.

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@article{arxiv.1905.00093,
  title  = {Vertex-Constraints in 3D Higher Spin Theories},
  author = {Stefan Fredenhagen and Olaf Krüger and Karapet Mkrtchyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.00093},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 pages

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